Sixty-six million years ago, a meteorite impact in modern-day Mexico wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living species of the time. To call the event catastrophic feels like an Keep reading
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Water Bottle Flipping Physics
In 2016, a senior talent show launched a new viral craze: water bottle flipping. As improbable as it seems at first glance, physics is actually on your side when it Keep reading
Stopping a Bounce
One way to damp a bouncing ball is to partially fill it with a fluid (a) or granular material (b). For the fluid, the initial impact sloshes the liquid. That doesn’t change Keep reading
Sloshing in Space
Last month, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet posted a video of some experiments he did on the International Space Station exploring the movement of fluids in microgravity. He filmed the experiments Keep reading
Water Bottle Flipping Physics
Water bottle flipping has become quite the craze, and in a recent video The Backyard Scientist presented his own take on the subject, testing whether you could flip a bottle Keep reading
Stopping the Slosh
Sloshing is a problem with which anyone who has carried an overly full cup is familiar. Because of their freedom to flow and conform to any shape, fluids can shift Keep reading
Instability
[original media no longer available] Many systems can exhibit unstable behaviors when perturbed. The classic example is a ball sitting on top of a hill; if you move the ball Keep reading
Other Ig Nobel Fluids
To round out our series on fluid dynamics in the Ig Nobel Prizes (which are not the same thing as the actual Nobel Prizes), here are some of the other winners. Last Keep reading
Fluids Round-up – 7 September 2013
Lots of great links in this week’s fluids round-up! Scientific American discusses how dogs use adhesion of water to their tongues to drink. We’ve mentioned this previously, as well as how it’s the same Keep reading
Sloshing in a Bouncing Sphere
The sloshing of liquids inside solids is usually presented as a difficulty to overcome, as with the transport of tanks, the motion of fuel in satellites, or even the problem Keep reading