Streaming Sand Grains Help Define Essence of a Liquid
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 12:35
in Physics & Chemistry
A graduate student in physics at the University of Chicago has devised a special apparatus for an $80,000 high-speed camera to image the rapidly changing behavior of the streaming sand, much as a skydiver might photograph a fellow jumper in free fall.
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