Thursday, September 27, 2012

Analogy for Brownian motion

I was feeding a potato chip to a pool full of small fish and I noticed that as the little fish surrounded the chip and nibbled at it, the chip moved around randomly.  I thought this was sort of an analogy for Brownian motion, where collisions between solvent molecules and small suspended particles causes the particles to move around in a random fashion.

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