Speeding to a stop: The finite-time singularity of a spinning disk

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 045102/1-045102/3

  Easwar, K ^a   Rouyer, F ^a   Menon, Narayanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; POWER LAWS; VIDEO FRAMES; VIDEO IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; KINETIC ENERGY;

SURFACE REACTIONS;

ARTICLE;

EID: 41349114183     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.045102     Document Type: Article

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