Time required for a sphere to fall through a funnel

We experimentally test a recently proposed theory of the behavior of a single frictional, inelastic, spherical particle falling under gravity through a symmetric funnel. We find that, while many qualitative results of the theory are supported by the data, the quantitative behavior of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J. Sridharan, B. Altschul, S. Crittenden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-12-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4904948