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Increasing the Size of a Piece of Popcorn
Paul V. Quinn, Daniel C. Hong, J. A. Both
Popcorn is an extremely popular snack food in the world today. Thermodynamics can be used to analyze how popcorn is produced. By treating the popping mechanism of the corn as a the…
Variational Approach to Hard Sphere Segregation Under Gravity
Joseph A. Both, Daniel C. Hong
It is demonstrated that the minimization of the free energy functional for hard spheres and hard disks yields the result that excited granular materials under gravity segregate not…
Density Functional Theory of Hard Sphere Condensation Under Gravity
Joseph A. Both, Daniel C. Hong
The onset of condensation of hard spheres in a gravitational field is studied using density functional theory. In particular, we find that the local density approximation yields re…
Corrugation of Roads
Joseph A. Both, Daniel C. Hong, Douglas A. Kurtze
We present a one dimensional model for the development of corrugations in roads subjected to compressive forces from a flux of cars. The cars are modeled as damped harmonic oscilla…
Controlling the Size of Popcorn
Daniel C. Hong, Joseph A. Both
We present a thermo-statistical model of popcorn production and propose a way to control the final size of the popcorn by monitoring only the chamber pressure.
Surface Instability in Windblown Sand
Douglas A. Kurtze, Joseph A. Both, Daniel C. Hong
We investigate the formation of ripples on the surface of windblown sand based on the one-dimensional model of Nishimori and Ouchi [Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 197 (1993)], which contains…