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Silly Putty 101
Andy Stein
Tue Jan 15, Thu Jan 17, Tue Jan 22, Thu Jan 24, 01-03:00pm, 1-246

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2002
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: 18.03, 8.01, 8.02

Did you know if you hit silly putty with a hammer, it shatters like a piece of glass, or that it picks up static electricity? This class helps us understand why silly putty has these interesting properties; we'll also have fun seeing what else silly putty can do. We'll use basic math, physics, and chemistry to model silly putty’s behavior and while I may show a few nasty equations, I'll focus on intuition, not grunge math. Understanding silly putty’s behavior has applications to modeling the deformation and flow of other nonlinear fluids such as blood and plastics.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/astein/sillyputty.html
Contact: Andy Stein, 3-466, x8-0649, astein@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
Latest update: 06-Nov-2001


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