Talk:Cheerio effect

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[edit] Footnotes

Something is doubling the footnote citation and I do not know what. NLOleson 00:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A better name?

For the sake of the rest of the English speaking world (who might think that Cheerio effect refers to ones expanding waist line due to unhealthy diet of American breakfast cereals) would it be less USA-centric to incorporate it into a fresh article that covers: Floccation, conglomeration and agglomeration etc., Then redirect C E to that? --Aspro 20:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Cheerios effect

I've merged Cheerios effect into this article. Should the merge have gone the other way? I dunno. I just followed what the merge tag suggested on this. The following is from Talk:Cheerios effect. Jimp 04:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bullshit?

Is this BS ? If there is a reference to a journal article, or evidence from another reliable published source, then I will believe it. Otherwise, it's going to be deleted. MP (talk) 11:08, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


Hi. Reference added. You don't need to be so confrontational. Try Googling for "cheerios effect" before calling something BS or threatening to delete a perfectly good article.

best, Robinh 15:31, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

  • This should be deleted and moved over to [wiktionary]. ( it a dic def. not an artical)
--Aspro 15:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't think so. It's very descriptive for just a definition, plus it's a whole explanation on an object.199.224.81.132 18:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

This article appears to plagiarize the information linked to (msnbc.com) and livescience.com. If it is not reworded or credited (if you can credit copying someone elses work) then it should be removed per wiki rules. Jawshoeaw 09:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC)jawshoeaw

[edit] Redirections

I just added redirections from "Cheerio effect" and "The Cheerio effect" If anyone disagrees, just delete them.--199.224.81.132 23:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh wait....You need a username to make articles. Never mind. --199.224.81.132 23:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  • In my opinion it should be listed as cheerios. The original authors titled the paper The "Cheerios Effect" and it was published that way. AIP.org refers to it as that in its press release. On a scientific level, the effect refers to attraction between objects, necessitating that there be more than one object.130.18.55.228 19:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification of Which Bessel Function

In the original paper they state the force result listed in the article, "K1 is modified Bessel Function of first kind of order 1" and cite Abramowitz's Handbook of Mathematical Functions (p.374). The problem is Abramowitz does not list I and K as being functions of first or second kind, and every other source I've seen (including wikipedia's bessel page) refers to I as B. func. of the 1st kind and K as 2nd kind. The physics involved is a central force potential that drops to 0 at infinite distance which is what B. funct. of 2nd kind (K) does.
sources:
http://www.deas.harvard.edu/softmat/downloads/2005-13.pdf <--original article.
http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/frameindex.htm <-- abramowitz "handbook of mathematical functions" (p374)
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ModifiedBesselFunctionoftheFirstKind.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ModifiedBesselFunctionoftheSecondKind.html
130.18.55.228 19:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)