
Research Digest: Science of daily life
Science is all around us. Even so, some scientific perspectives on daily activities feel particularly ingenious — and that’s what I wanted to highlight in this digest.
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read
- Cutting a round cake on scientific principles [http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.aspx_action=view_id=307]
- Walking with coffee: Why does it spill? [https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.046117]
- The mathematics of dress making [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/sites/default/files/09mar93christopherzeeman_mathematicsappliedtodressmaking.pdf]
- The rolling suitcase instability: a coupling between translation and rotation [http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/473/2202/20170076]
- Row bots [http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3606]
- In-store music affects product choice [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v390/n6656/abs/390132a0.html]
- The Amazing World of Billiards Physics [http://billiards.colostate.edu/physics/Alciatore_SCIAM_article_posted_version.pdf]
