What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer.

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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Subject	What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer.
Date	2015-09-26 20:08 -0500
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What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer.
> http://gizmodo.com/whats-the-best-way-to-tie-your-shoes-physics-may-have-1729896581


> The most common mistake when tying your shoelaces is accidentally
> making a weaker granny knot instead of the stronger square knot. Now,
> physics can help you tie the perfect knot that stays tight no matter
> what.
>
> While it is well-known that any knot’s strength depends on its
> configuration, nobody really understands specifically why this should
> be the case. With a recent paper in Physical Review Letters, a team
> of physicists has taken an important step forward in unraveling this
> mystery, boiling it all down to a single equation that predicts the
> strength and shape of a simple knot.
>
> Knots have long been a focus of study for mathematicians in the
> abstract, but modeling their physical characteristics in the real
> world is notoriously difficult, even with computer simulations. MIT
> mechanical engineering researcher Khalid Jawed explained the problem
> to Gizmodo. “If you tie a knot and study the shape with the naked
> eye, the twists and turns are fairly complicated,” producing a mix of
> interacting forces. Any mathematical model must account for all those
> twists and turns, including such variables as tension, friction, and
> the stiffness of the material — whether it be shoelaces, rope,
> headphone wires, nylon, surgical thread, or even folding proteins and
> DNA.

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What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer. Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-26 20:08 -0500
  Re: What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer. jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-27 01:45 +0000
  Re: What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer. gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-09-26 21:09 -0500
  Re: What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer. Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-09-27 13:15 -0700
  Re: What's the Best Way to Tie Your Shoes? Physics May Have the Answer. "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-28 14:22 -0700

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