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How bent spaghetti break
Catapult experiments
We ran catapult experiments, in which a bent spaghetti pasta is suddently released at one end. We found that the mere release of the rod is sufficient to break it: a catapult that carries no load can break when launched.
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Sequence of frames shot with a fast camera (1000 frames per sec, shown here at 1 fps). Requires Quicktime |
