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venerdì 17 febbraio 2023
# gst: apropos of bouncing, even balls that undergo rolling are typically found to lift off slipping.
sabato 20 febbraio 2016
# s-gst: like a rolling stone
<< Here we report the discovery that even the simplest, oldest and most prevalent forms of evolutionary movement—rolling bodies and whirls of turbulence—exhibit the same body-size effect on life time and life travel as the evolutionary movement united by the body-size effect so far: animals, rivers, vehicles, jets and plumes. >>
Adrian Bejan. Rolling stones and turbulent eddies: why the bigger live longer and travel farther. Nature. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 21445 (2016). doi:10.1038/srep21445. Published online: 17 Feb 2016.
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep21445
http://pratt.duke.edu/news/rolling-stones-turbulence-connect-evolution-physics
more:
Muddy Waters. Rollin' Stone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmEMv8rcCA
Bob Dylan. Like a Rolling Stone (Original)
venerdì 20 settembre 2024
# gst: a body of revolution with a cat’s toy mechanism.
mercoledì 24 febbraio 2016
# s-gst: tracing nonlocal surreal behaviors ...
<< (..) particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests. But there’s a catch – the tracks the particles follow do not always behave as one would expect from “realistic” trajectories, but often in a fashion that has been termed “surrealistic” >>
http://www.cifar.ca/assets/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism/
Dylan H. Mahler, Lee Rozema, et al. Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories. Science Advances 19 Feb 2016:
Vol. 2, no. 2, e1501466. DOI: 10.1126/science.1501466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1501466
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.full-text.pdf+html
giovedì 17 marzo 2022
# gst: apropos of weird transitions: from non-equilibrium conditions square droplets and liquid lattices can emerge.
venerdì 6 settembre 2019
# gst: apropos of swirling granular media, a geometric frustration; will these entities turn left or right?
<< Granular material in a swirled container exhibits a curious transition as the number of particles is increased: At low densities, the particle cluster rotates in the same direction as the swirling motion of the container, while at high densities it rotates in the opposite direction. >>
AA << show that the transition to counterrotation is friction dependent. At high particle densities, frictional effects result in geometric frustration, which prevents particles from cooperatively rolling and spinning. Consequently, the particle cluster rolls like a rigid body with no-slip conditions on the container wall, which necessarily counterrotates around its own axis. Numerical simulations verify that both wall-disk friction and disk-disk friction are critical for inducing counterrotation. >>
Lisa M. Lee, John Paul Ryan, et al. Geometric frustration induces the transition between rotation and counterrotation in swirled granular media. Phys. Rev. E 100, 012903. July 8, 2019. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012903
Leah Burrows. Solving the pancake problem. Harvard University. Aug 30, 2019. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-08-pancake-problem.html