Solving the puzzle of leaping shampoo

April 21st, 2008

Leaping shampoo, otherwise known as the Kaye Effect, puzzled scientists for quite some time before a group of scientists in the Netherlands produced this cracking video.

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3 Comments

  • 1. scote  |  April 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am

    If tilting the platform leads to a stable Kaye Effect, why is the video of that so short?

  • 2. Frank the SciencePunk  |  April 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Maybe all the shampoo slid off the surface?

  • 3. Spurtz  |  July 24th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Very nice explanation. Amazing stuff.

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