Thursday, February 28, 2008

Nail Varnish Ain't Just For Nails

I tried using the extremely advanced and sophisticated technology that is clear nail varnish to fix the fibre onto the glass slide - it works quite nicely. A bit of nail varnish remover recovers the glass slide and fibre too so nothing has to go to waste.
I did some reading up about the experiment this afternoon. I wonder if I can calculate the viscous drag and 'terminal velocity' of the beads when they are trapped and propelled. I have to sort out the oil immersion objective and CCD camera first though.
I am beginning to feel like this experiment will not be done within the next few weeks...

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