{"id":590,"date":"2008-07-24T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=590"},"modified":"2008-07-24T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T09:02:31","slug":"physics-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/590","title":{"rendered":"Physics at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstscience.com\/home\/perspectives\/editorials\/sandcastle-science_49987.html\">Sandcastle Science<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/physics-of-sandcastle.html\">physics and physicists<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[W]et sand&#8217;s strength is more or less constant for anywhere between one and 30 per cent water.&#8221; That&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a trade-off between the strength of each bond between the grains &#8211; which lessens as the sand gets wetter &#8211; and the number of bonds, which increases as the sand becomes more saturated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandcastle Science via physics and physicists &#8220;[W]et sand&#8217;s strength is more or less constant for anywhere between one and 30 per cent water.&#8221; That&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a trade-off between the strength of each bond between the grains &#8211; which lessens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/590\">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-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}