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How Mathematics Uncovered the Dandelion’s Halo with Cathal Cummins

This was a Maths Week Scotland 2021 Public Lecture Dr Cathal Cummins (Heriot-Watt) - whose research focuses on fluid mechanics of swirls, encompassing problems in biology, renewable energy, and…

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Higgs Hour with Tyler Shendruk 'Driven Active Nematics: External stresses drive topological transitions in spontaneously flowing fluids'

Speaker: Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: While traditional fluids only flow when acted upon, a remarkable class of biomaterials spontaneously flow by means of their own…

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Lecture 6 Part 3: Driven, damped oscillators

Here we add a driving force to the oscillator and consider how the standard form of the equation is modified. We look at the amplification factor and see what happens under resonant conditions.

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