Impact-induced acceleration by obstacles

Published in New Journal of Physics, 2018

Recommended citation: Recommended citation: Corbin, N. A., Hanna, J. A., Royston, W. R., Singh, H., Warner, R. B., “Impact-induced acceleration by obstacles”, New Journal of Physics, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 053031, May 2018, issn: 1367-2630. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aac151

This paper is about a phenomenon in which a falling chain impacting a surface accelerates faster than gravitational acceleration. The paper gives experimental results confirming the effect and a mathematical model which captures the behavior.

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Recommended citation: Corbin, N. A., Hanna, J. A., Royston, W. R., Singh, H., Warner, R. B., “Impact-induced acceleration by obstacles”, New Journal of Physics, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 053031, May 2018, issn: 1367-2630.