I think I’ll have to bake fractal cookies sometime.
Yes, I’m easily amused. And I like the Evil Mad Scientist.
I think I’ll have to bake fractal cookies sometime.
Yes, I’m easily amused. And I like the Evil Mad Scientist.
Ask MetaFilter: Liquid Bounce.
“At the University of Texas, researchers have produced some amazing videos and photos of liquid bouncing on liquid. This was one of nature.com’s Images of the Year for 2007 (picture number 6, in the upper-right corner). The project report, along with pictures and videos, is found on their bouncing jet page, and it’s quite extraordinary both for the counter-intuitive nature of the phenomenon and the extremely low-tech production methods. You can even do it at home with little more than a lazy Susan and some silicone oil.”
Includes a link to vibrated shear thickening fluids.
(Previously: February 17, 2008, April 22, 2007.)
After posting about the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain a while ago, I happened upon them again today on MetaFilter. There are some great pieces of them on Youtube. My favourites: Fly me of the Händel, Wuthering Heights (Heathcliff!) and, of course, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It’s also worth checking out the video clips on their website to get an impression of the diversity of the songs they play.
Mit schönen Grüßen an den Schockwellenreiter und Craig!
Non-Newtonian fluids are fluids whose visosity changes according to the force which is applied to them. Stick your finger in slowly, and it behaves like a liquid, but bang it with a fist, and it behaves like it’s solid. Like in this film: Non-Newtonian fluid (Youtube link).
Or, more spectacularly, you can even walk on the liquid, like in this movie: Walking on a cornstarch-water-mixture (noisy Youtube link, in Spanish).
Of course, the best-known non-Newtonian fluid is Silly Putty, at least to Americans. By the way, I’ve never seen it for sale in Germany, but John VanDyk was kind enough to send me some years ago. Hi, John!
Non-Newtonian fluids have some interesting properties (the following are all Youtube links, except where noted):
Kaye Effect: Pour a thin stream of shampoo into a container, and a stream of shampoo might jump back up. This effect became famous when it was explained by a group of Dutch scientists last year, who produced a stunning video of the Kaye effect. See also Leaping Shampoo and the Stable Kaye Effect (PDF).
Fano Flow: the fluid can be syphoned tubeless – it seems to move upwards unsupported.
Weissenberg Effect: The fluid climbs up a rotating rod. You know this one from beating egg-whites with an electric mixer.
Barus Effect (aka Merrington Effect, Die Swell, and Extrudate Swell): After passing a small orifice the diameter of the liquid stream increases.
Liquid Rope Coil Effect: When the poured liquid reaches the surface, it seems to coil like a rope. You can demonstrate this one fairly easily with honey.
Heute habe ich die Aufgaben der diesjährigen Proberunde des Wettbewerbs Mathematik ohne Grenzen in meinen Lerngruppen korrigiert. Eine Aufgabe lautete:
“Findet die kleinste natürliche Zahl ungleich Null, die ein Vielfaches von 2, 3 und 5 ist, und deren Quersumme ebenfalls ein Vielfaches von 2, 3 und 5 ist.”
Dass die Lösung der Schüler die Bedingungen erfüllt, hatte ich schnell nachgeprüft, aber wie überprüft man, ob die Schüler wirklich die kleinste Zahl gefunden haben? Klar, mit meinem Lieblings-kann-alles-außer-Spargel-schälen-Werkzeug Excel. Das Programm ist für die Schüler als Hilfsmittel natürlich nicht zugelassen, aber für Lehrer gibt es da glücklicherweise keine Einschränkungen.
Kann Excel Quersummen berechnen? Nein, leider nicht. Aber es gibt Leute, die es Excel beigebracht haben. Entweder, man schreibt sich selbst eine Funktion, oder man macht das ganze Schritt für Schritt quasi zu Fuß, indem man die einzelnen Ziffern ausliest (zunächst als Text, der dann in Zahlen umgewandelt werden muss) und dann summiert. Letztere Variante habe ich verwandt und konnte so leicht überprüfen, dass die Schüler wirklich die kleinste Zahl gefunden hatten.
Wer möchte, kann gern in den Kommentaren einen Tipp abgeben, um welche Zahl es sich handelt. Ich liefere die Antwort dann in ein paar Tagen nach.
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