{"id":4011,"date":"2012-05-06T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2012-05-06T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T15:58:56","slug":"how-to-avoid-spilling-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-to-avoid-spilling-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Spilling Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/050612_1534_HowToAvoidS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a fluid dynamics conference two researchers noticed that conference-goers had significant amounts of trouble preventing their drinks from spilling. Seeing as this was a fluids dynamics conference this struck them as somewhat ironic, writes Jon Cartwright, and inspired the two to research how best to avoid spilling coffee. Their findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers asked experiment participants to walk at different speeds with a full mug of coffee in their hands, in a laboratory that was specially equipped with cameras designed to track the sloshing of the liquid.<\/li>\n<li>They found that mugs have natural frequencies that are related to a person&#8217;s leg movements as they walk.<\/li>\n<li>The research suggests that individuals should leave a gap of about one centimeter between the top of the liquid and the top of the mug to avoid spills.<\/li>\n<li>The most effective way to avoid spills is to watch your coffee as you walk \u2013 that almost guarantees no spills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about the technologies that coffee mug manufacturers could employ to make their mugs more spill resistant, why they probably won&#8217;t, some of the limitations of the study, the &#8220;Nobel&#8221; prize that they might win, and more details about how the study was conducted, click <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/05\/the-physics-of-spilled-coffee.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/05\/the-physics-of-spilled-coffee.html\">Science Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a fluid dynamics conference two researchers noticed that conference-goers had significant amounts of trouble preventing their drinks from spilling. Seeing as this was a fluids dynamics conference this struck them as somewhat ironic, writes Jon Cartwright, and inspired the two to research how best to avoid spilling coffee. Their findings include: The researchers asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/050612_1534_HowToAvoidS1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}