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How to fire a rubber band with physics | Science News

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How to fire a rubber band with physics | Science News

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High-speed video reveals the complicated physics of rubber band potshots.

Read more: sciencenews.org/article/high-speed-video-reveal…

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Story
Emily Conover

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Helen Thompson

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Alexandros T. Oratis, James C. Bird

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“Transit Center” by Podington Bear
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Citation
A.T. Oratis and J.C. Bird. Shooting rubber bands: Two self-similar retractions for a stretched elastic wedge. Physical Review Letters. In press, 2018.

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Science News published this 1:05 video tutorial on November 12, 2019. It has been watched 57,320 times on YouTube.

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