My name is Mason Porter. I am a Professor in Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) and am Professor in Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University. Previously, I was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Before that, I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College. I am still a Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College.
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Physics of Ponytails
Leave it to Ray Goldstein and company to investigate the physics of ponytails. This BBC News article covers research in an article published today in Physical Review Letters. Among other things, the authors of the article define a new dimensionless quantity that they coined the "Rapunzel number". Oh dear...
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