“For travelers, balancing luggage, a snack, personal items, and a drink can be difficult, often resulting in spilling of beverages either while walking around or while seated on, for example, a plane or in a car.” What one needs, perhaps, is a self-stabilizing drinks-cup holder? And, fortunately, a newly patented solution has become available. Inventor […]
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Further physics insight from walking backwards with coffee
“The authors derive their inspiration from an Ig Nobel prize-winning paper describing a basic mechanical model that investigates the results of walking backwards while carrying a cup of coffee.” So says the report “Mathematical model reveals solution to sloshing coffee,” in Phys.org. The Ig Nobel Prize-winning paper about walking backwards while carrying a cup of coffee […]
The formal advance of the research on beer-vs-coffee spilling
The research on why foamy liquid (such as beer or latte) is less likely to slosh out of a cup than non-foamy liquid (such as black coffee), has now been formally published. The study is: “Damping of liquid sloshing by foams,” A. Sauret, F. Boulogne, J. Cappello, Emilie Dressaire [pictured here] and H.A. Stone, Physics of […]
Recognitions – part 4 – “Sloshing sounds courtesy of…”
The CNBC not only provides a freely available online source of Greebles, Tribbles and Yadgits, (see previous article in this series) but also links to the Auditory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Psycholgy Department, headed by professor Laurie Heller. The lab hosts a huge archive of carefully produced audio recordings provided for research purposes. Hear […]