Monthly archive for October 2016

Scott Waitukaitis Abstract

Scott Waitukaitis Leiden University, The Netherlands Title:  Rabbits, Planets, Volcanoes, Dust Devils:  The Surprising Physics of Granular Tribocharging Abstract: If you shuffle your feet across a carpet and touch a doorknob, you might get shocked.  This is tribocharging–the transfer of electrical charge between different materials.  Although it

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