{"id":11635,"date":"2012-05-07T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11635"},"modified":"2012-05-07T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:00:33","slug":"no-use-crying-over-this-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11635","title":{"rendered":"No Use Crying Over This, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/05\/the-physics-of-spilled-coffee.html\">The Physics of Spilled Coffee<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I cannot say for sure if coffee spilling has been detrimental to scientific research to any significant extent,&#8221; says study author Rouslan Krechetnikov, a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. &#8220;But it can certainly be disruptive for a train of thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Krechetnikov and his graduate student Hans Mayer decided to investigate coffee spilling at a fluid dynamics conference last year when they watched overburdened participants trying to carry their drinks to and fro. They quickly realized that the physics wasn&#8217;t simple. Aside from the mechanics of human walking, which depends on a person&#8217;s age, health, and gender, there is the highly involved science of liquid sloshing, which depends on a complex interplay of accelerations, torques, and forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a vague recollection of this being studied years ago, looking at walking resonances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, physicist Andrzej Herczynski at Boston College thinks Krechetnikov and Mayer&#8217;s study didn&#8217;t go far enough. &#8220;I was personally a bit disappointed that the study is limited to cylindrical mugs \u2026 leaving out the very common curved or conical cups, such as those used for cappuccinos and lattes in Italy,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Still, the paper seems at minimum destined for the Ig Nobel Prize.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The conical spill-resistant mugs were popular with my seagoing shipmates back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Physics of Spilled Coffee &#8220;I cannot say for sure if coffee spilling has been detrimental to scientific research to any significant extent,&#8221; says study author Rouslan Krechetnikov, a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. &#8220;But it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}