Jake Anderegg
Soap on milk causes surface-tension driven flow, visualized with food dye. More information |
Nicholas Cote
Soap and food dye on milk creates a surface tension driven flow. More information |
Ernesto Grossman
Surface-tension driven flow in dyed milk is enhanced by spinning and dragging the Q-tip with soap through the milk. More information |
Mitchell Stubbs, Sam Sommers, Joshua Hecht
Soap and food dye on milk creates a surface tension driven flow. More information |
Sam Sommers, Joshua Hecht, Mitch Stubbs
Soap and food dye on milk creates a surface tension driven flow. More information |
Alexander Ting
Soap on milk creates a surface-tension driven flow, visualized by dye. More information |
Amanda Childress, Andrew Tycksen, Ankit Sharma, Jacob Wright, Qian Li.
Chilled whole milk makes stars when the classic surface tension driven experiment is performed with dye and soap. More information |
Joshua Hecht, Mitch Stubbs, Sam Sommers
Dye was put in milk, then rotated 1/4 turn, then a bit of soap was added to drive the flow outward. More information |
Hamed Yazdi
Surface tension on a hydrophobic penny surface can hold up to two pennies' height in water. More information |
Jeremy Baugh
Stage fog drifts across a view into a projection showing a wind-driven sculpture. More information |
Qian Li
A bubble forming cycle in heterogeneous boiling of water, filmed at 500 fps. More information |
Nathan Amack
Boiling water results in a variety of bubble sizes and motions. More information |
Michael Chilton
Boiling water breaks through a thick olive oil layer in distinct areas. Color shifted. More information | Fury Nick Beato
Oil and vinegar don't mix, even close-up. More information |
Sreyas Krishnan
Boiling milk builds a foam due to protein and fat reinforcing bubbles. More information |
Jeff Byrne, Anthony Johnson, Aaron Coady and Alyssa Berg
Saffman-Taylor viscous fingering is seen as the top sheet is lifted off a Hele Shaw cell, pulling air into dyed corn syrup. More information |
Alyssa Berg, Anthony Johnson, Jeff Byrne, and Aaron Coady
Saffman-Taylor viscous fingering is seen as the top sheet is lifted off a Hele Shaw cell, pulling air into dyed corn syrup. More information |
Anthony Johnson, Aaron Coady, Jeff Byrne and Alyssa Berg
Dense highlighter ink displaces higher viscosity corn syrup and laundry detergent, resulting in viscous fingering, Shown color reversed. More information |
Aaron Coady, Jeff Byrne, Anthony Johnson and Alyssa Berg
Maple syrup, topped by dilute laundry detergent, topped in turn by dilute highlighter in shows spreading viscous layers, illustrating the Marangoni effect. More information |
Gregory Lundeen
Oobleck, a 2:1 mix of cornstarch and water, forms amorphous shapes when vibrated at 70 hz due to its shear-thickening behavior. More information |
Colin Stewart, Josh Lester, Emily Howard, Travis Brown, Preston Wheeler
A rough surface, plus potassium benzoate and aspartame within Mentos reduce the amount of energy required for the bubbles to form making it easier for CO2 bubbles to form in Coke. More information |
Emily Howard, Travis Brown, Josh Lester, Colin Stewart, Preston Wheeler
Three Mentos in Diet Coke causes rapid release of carbon dioxide, driving the foam fountain. More information |
Preston Wheeler, Colin Stewart, Josh Lester, Emily Howard, Travis Brown
A streak photo allows estimation of the droplet and jet speed to be 3 m/s, resulting in a Reynolds number of 20,000. More information |
Josh Lester, Emily Howard, Travis Brown, Colin Stewart, Preston Wheeler
A relatively slow exposure of 1/8 second creates a streak photo of a Mentos/Coke fountain. More information |
Nick Shearon
A laminar flow of chocolate milk impacting the side of a glass. More information |
Sacred Heart Doug Schwichtenberg, Ryan Kelly, Andrew Fish, Nicholas Travers, George Seese
Propane passed through soapy water creates combustible bubbles. More information |
George Seese, Doug Schwichtenberg, Ryan Kelly, Andrew Fish
A burning vortex ring is formed as copper sulfate and rubbing alcohol is ignited. More information |
Ryan Kelly, Andrew Fish, Doug Schwichtenberg, Nicholas Travers, George Seese
Copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate and rubbing alcohol produce a range of colors as they combust. More information |
Andrew Fish, Doug Schwichtenberg, Ryan Kelly, Nicholas Travers, George Seese
Flaming P-Tex polyethelyne burns as it drips. More information |
Ankit Sharma
Growing icicles release tiny amounts of heat into the air, which then rises, slowing growth at the top. Water on the surface of an icicle flows down, visualized here with dye. More information |
Brayden Hass, Jakob Anderegg, Peter Davis, Kerylyn Lay, David Oakley.
On a dry day, a little water added to boiling liquid nitrigen in a dish dramatically increased fog production More information |
Kerylyn Lay, Peter Davis, Jakob Anderegg, David Oakley, and Brayden Hass.
Cold heavy bubbles containing water fog are formed when gas evaporated from liquid nitrogen passes through a soap solution. More information |
David Oakley, Kerylyn Lay, Peter Davis, Jakob Anderegg, and Brayden Hass.
Cold heavy bubbles containing water fog are formed when gas evaporated from liquid nitrogen passes through a soap solution. More information |
Peter Davis, Jakob Anderegg, Kerylyn Lay, David Oakley, and Brayden Hass.
Cold heavy bubbles containing water fog are formed when gas evaporated from liquid nitrogen passes through a soap solution. More information |
Hayley Schneider and team, supervised by Prof. Y.C. Lee.
A condensing refrigerant flows through a Joule-Thompson valve in a microcooler device, filmed through a microscope at 800 fps. More information |
Jennie Jorgenson, Joshua Smith, Nathaniel Amack, Benjamin Pacheco
A photomicrograph of a bent-core liquid crystal in the disordered crystalline phase. More information |
Benjamin Pacheco, Jennie Jorgenson, Joshua Smith, Nathaniel Amack,
A photomicrograph of a synthetic thermotropic liquid crystal in the smectic A phase, under applied voltage bias and polarized light. The dark areas show a different crystal orientation from the bright areas. More information |
Joshua Smith, Benjamin Pacheco, Jennie Jorgenson, Nathaniel Amack,
A photomicrograph of a bent-core liquid crystal in transition between smectic and columnar phases. Black areas have a different orientation. More information |
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Guy Casavan, Alyssa Berg, Aaron Coady, Nick Cote, and Sreyas Krishnan
Sand on a shaker table forms itself into piles stratified by particle size due to intergranular friction. More information |
Nicholas Travers, Scotty Hamilton
Three-dimensional structure is seen in vortexes shed in the wake of a cylinder in a flume, mirrored to produce symmetry. More information |
Scotty Hamilton, Nicholas Travers
Three-dimensional structure is seen in vortexes shed in the wake of a cylinder in a flume, color reversed. More information |
Travis Brown, Emily Howard, Josh Lester, Colin Stewart, Preston Wheeler
An air pocket is trapped as water flows over an obstacle in a flume, shown color-reversed. More information |
Jacob Wright and Andrew Tycksen
A paintball impacting a wall, filmed at 6000 fps. More information |
Andrew Tycksen and Jacob Wright
A paintball impacting a wall, filmed at 6000 fps. More information |