Granular Dynamics - Sixty Symbols

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• amplitude
• granular
• systems

[suicidalkatt]

Granular smiley face 9:37

[MrTabamon]

He loves boxes

[Ypthor]

Have you ever tried putting in some coloured beads? It might help analyse the movement of individual "particles".

[cateattingmonster0]

How come pressure decreases when particles clump together in this case?

[legendaryswordsmith]

like a polaroid picture

[jayxtreme6]

ahah was eating a pizza with no anchovies while watching this, almost overcooked it too because the video was so interesting :P

[haflappy]

right when it was geting good an error popped up :(

[BarneySaysHi]

So you're saying that if we shake our politicians hard enough they finally will start to make some sense?

[falcoperegrinus82]

When the grains concentrate, is they pattern they form random? When they all concentrated to one side of the apparatus, why that side?

[speckles298]

@peterc1 Actually the 'layers of atmosphere' are due to the Earth's gravity, pulling the gases to it. The denser gases accumulate close to the Earth, while the lighter ones are pushed upwards. The higher you go, the less dense the atmosphere it.

[peterc1]

When the sand collect into a corner, is that a corulation to how there are different "layers" of the athopshere?