Cimorene
March 5th, 2012, 03:27 PM
Here's an interesting hair-related article I thought I'd share with you all:
Ponytail Physics: How Competing Forces Shape Bundles of Hair (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/03/03/ponytail-physics-how-competing-forces-shape-bundles-of-hair/)
"Some of the major forces conspiring to shape a ponytail are elasticity, gravity, tension and pressure. That last property, Goldstein and his colleagues found, comes from the curvatures of individual fibers, from which the physicists derived a so-called equation of state for hair. A similar concept was applied more than 65 years ago in studies of the compressibility of wool." :hmm:
Someone from LHC should contact these researchers for a study of bun physics, because I've seen some pretty gravity-defying 'dos around here! :p
Ponytail Physics: How Competing Forces Shape Bundles of Hair (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/03/03/ponytail-physics-how-competing-forces-shape-bundles-of-hair/)
"Some of the major forces conspiring to shape a ponytail are elasticity, gravity, tension and pressure. That last property, Goldstein and his colleagues found, comes from the curvatures of individual fibers, from which the physicists derived a so-called equation of state for hair. A similar concept was applied more than 65 years ago in studies of the compressibility of wool." :hmm:
Someone from LHC should contact these researchers for a study of bun physics, because I've seen some pretty gravity-defying 'dos around here! :p