Microscopy around the Home: Studying Brownian Motion Feature Summary
- Type:
- Physics in Your World
- Title:
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Studying Brownian Motion
- Description:
- Click on the photo above to see a video of Brownian motion--the random jiggling of small particles due to molecular bombardment--in this case, the particles are fat globules in diluted milk. You can also see this higher-res video.
To find out how a physicist stopped Brownian motion in its tracks, check out Hold Still, from the American Physical Society's Physical Review Focus.
(This feature was updated on July 18, 2013.)
- Image:
 - image and video credit: David Walker, Micscape; image source
- Image URL:
- http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/dww/home/dwbrown5.gif
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