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Recent Research

> Complex Matter Project

> Granular realization of a Brownian ratchet (paper 79)

> Solitary water waves

> Inverse Chladni patterning: New surprises in a classic experiment

> Faraday heaping: The interplay of air & sand

> Granular Leidenfrost effect

> Leaping Shampoo (3-minute movie, 31 MB)

Winning entry in the Gallery of Fluid Motion
 at the 59th Annual Meeting of the
Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS,
 November 24-26, 2006, in Tampa Bay,
 Florida.
 See also publications 62, 63, 66.

 Picture by Michel Versluis,
 Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands.

> Clustering grains and traffic jams

>> Collapse of a cluster
>> Clustering cars
>> Competitive clustering: David vs. Goliath

> Meteor impact on a laboratory scale

> Research inspired by questions that came up in the classroom
>> In the relativistic paradox of the pole and the barn, is the pole caught after all, or not? (paper 64)
>> When a horse accelerates, why does it first walk, then trot and finally break into a gallop? (paper 33)
>> Throw a ball straight up in the air. Does the way down take just as long as the way up? (paper 27)

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