Counting kinks in a collapsing ring to predict stability
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, MIT and the University of Limerick has found that it is possible to predict the stability of a collapsing ring by counting its kinks. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes experiments they conducted that involved placing an elastic ring over a soap film and recording what happens when the ring collapses.