At home, do-it-yourself fluid mechanics - EurekAlert

In Physics of Fluids, scientists describe their work on an at-home study of rheology, which is used to study the way non-Newtonian liquids or semisolid substances flow. The projects assigned to students had two parts: gathering qualitative visual evidence of …

image: Do-it-yourself measurement. A student took a single photo (left) of a carbopol suspension in water scooped with a small spatula. The physics of this flowable gel substance, similar to hair gel… [+3785 chars]

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