Levitation recreates nature's dumbbells
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Using magnetic levitation to imitate weightlessness, physicists have manufactured solid wax models of splash form tektites. "These wax models provide the first direct experimental validation for numerical models of the equilibrium shapes of spinning droplets. This research is of importance to fundamental physics and also to study of tektite formation," an author said.