Friday, January 25, 2008

Fragmentation

They say a dry spaghetti always snaps into 3 pieces or more when you bend it, supposedly due to a cascading effect. The diagram below shows that it is possible to snap a spaghetti in 2. The red circle indicates the broken areas on the spaghetti as indicated on the diagram 1 strand out of 3 is broken in only 1 section instead of 2 or more, although it is not broken evenly in half the diagram indicates that it is very close to it. 


Just before you say anything I didn't use any equipment but my two hands, I didn't break it in any special method, I snapped them one at a time and it was done in room temperature in the same room.


1 comment:

Aulia said...

Quite a scientific test you did there... < T_T >