Levitating Styrofoam (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Levitating Styrofoam

Caption

A styrofoam particle of 1.6cm (1.88 wavelengths of sound) trapped in the centre of a 40kHz ultrasonic generator of virtual vortices.

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University of Bristol

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