Posted by Abel Pharmboy on November 26, 2006 Via Will’s Clicked, a Spanish TV show on science and technology demonstrates the “shear-thickening” property of a non-Newtonian fluid (i.e., where rapid application of forces causes the fluid to behave like a solid).
Pretty cool – watch what happens around 1:49 when one of the hosts stands still atop the muck.
Amazing video.
We used to make oobleck (aka ubleck, a mixture of corn starch and water) in the bath tubs in the party rooms at MiniCon ( http://mnstf.org/minicon ) in Minneapolis back in the mid 1980′s. You can’t move fast in oobleck.
LM Wanderer
Excellent! I don’t understand Spanish, so did they say anything about how much water and corn starch was in that tub? Seems like something I should have done in my college dorm room.
About 25 years ago, I took rheology, where we worked the math for non-Newtonian fluids. My favorite non-Newtonian fluid is ketchup. It thins as stress is applied in a linear fashion, and then it flows as a liquid on your white shirt (Bingham plastic).
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