"The physics of liquid formation are the physics of biology," he said.
I snatched up my homework book — though not before a few splashes dashed across the page, elegant illustrations of the physics of liquid form.
On walls and window sills, and tucked into neat stacks, are pieces that deal with "the physics of liquid formation," as he calls some of his earlier work.
103 (1995) 3108; The Physics of Liquid Crystals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993; Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems with Internal Microstructure, Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, 1994; J. Chem.
A rich and varied literature exists on the physics of liquid jets and droplet formation.
"Studying this amorphous solid water will be useful in terms of understanding the physics and chemistry of liquids," says Kay.
Around the 1960s, the study of physical properties of liquids was added to this list, and it came to be known as condensed matter physics.
Ruse notes that, following Aristotle, Thompson used as an example the morphology of jellyfish, which he explained entirely mechanically with the physics of a heavy liquid falling through a lighter liquid, avoiding natural selection as an explanation.
Dr. Michael L. Steigerwald, a research chemist at Columbia University who was not involved in the research, said the Bell Labs work was "really very clever" and should allow the study of the fundamental physics of how a liquid wets a solid surface.
