{"id":2129,"date":"2012-09-22T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2012-09-22T12:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T11:28:37","slug":"ig-nobel-prize-for-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/22\/ig-nobel-prize-for-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ig Nobel prize for physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ad\/Hair_tie.jpg\" alt=\"ponytail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Keller (US), Raymond Goldstein (US\/UK), Patrick Warren and Robin Ball (UK) have been awarded the 2012 Ig Nobel prize for physics   for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail [1,2].<\/p>\n<p>The winners were announced and awarded on Thursday 20th September.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested should examine the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ponytail#Ponytail_equation\" title=\"ponytail\" target=\"_blank\">Ponytail Equation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] Raymond E. Goldstein, Patrick B. Warren, and Robin C. Ball,  &#8220;Shape of a Ponytail and the Statistical Physics of Hair Fiber Bundles.&#8221; <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>, vol. <strong>198<\/strong>, no. 7, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[2] Joseph B. Keller, &#8220;Ponytail Motion,&#8221;, <em>Journal of Applied Mathematics<\/em>, vol.<strong> 70<\/strong>, no. 7, 2010, pp. 2667\u201372.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/\" title=\"Ig Winners\" target=\"_blank\">Ig Nobel prizes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Keller (US), Raymond Goldstein (US\/UK), Patrick Warren and Robin Ball (UK) have been awarded the 2012 Ig Nobel prize for physics for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail [1,2]. The winners were announced and awarded on Thursday 20th September. Anyone interested should examine the Ponytail &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/22\/ig-nobel-prize-for-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ig Nobel prize for physics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}