Speaker: Prof John Lister (DAMTP)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 6/2/2012 20:30, drinks from 20:15

Anyone awake at breakfast-time can observe that a stream of honey falling onto toast from a little height buckles and coils on impact. This talk will describe the physics and mathematics of a falling viscous thread. Prediction of the coiling frequency is surprisingly complex. And what happens when you move the toast?