Challenging experiment on the way to discover physical laws that govern onset, rise, transformation and vanishing of fabulous patterns on the surface of a layer of sand in periodically changed gravitational field.
2010 summer project students managed to observe oscillons on a surface of a layer of fine steel spheres. What made the oscillon moving along the surface? Do we see the other four oscillons that cannot reach the surface by some reason? Why does the oscillon disappear finally?
Every research starts with studying theoretical background and the other research groups experiments. A list of recommended articles and reports will be helpful in finding the most important sources of information. All of them are available on the Internet or in the library. You will get a hard copy of majority of the listed sources on Monday, May 2.
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Last updated on 28 April 2011