Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

Monday, December 22, 2008 - 16:14 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A water drop placed on a soap film that vibrates up and down may bounce as if on a trampoline -- but it's much more than that, according to MIT mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" is the simplest fluid example of chaos theory ever explored.

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