Awesome high speed microscopy footage of drying coffee. It's way better then watching paint dry.... Well, I assume. Maybe watching paint dry is really cool with a good microscope and camera.
From YT:
This never-before-seen footage from a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Physics and Astronomy shows microscopic particles moving in a drop as it dries.
Penn physicists recently shown that simply changing particle shape can eliminate the ring-shaped stain that is left behind when drops of certain liquids dry. In this video microscopy footage from their experiments, watch as spherical particles get swept to the edges, while oblong particles are distributed consistently.
Video and Music Composition by Kurtis Sensenig
kurtiss@upenn.edu
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MycroftHomlzsays...*promote! Yeah physics. Ironically, I was having some beers with a bunch of other physicists and we talked about this paper! And I heard about on NPR in the morning.
siftbotsays...Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, August 22nd, 2011 11:16am PDT - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.
wormwoodsays...Turns out that spectator paint drying also has its fans. http://videosift.com/video/Sixty-Symbols-Watching-paint-dry
MycroftHomlzsays...Dude this is interesting physics.
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