ANALYSIS OF HARD- AND SOFT-BODIED
GRANULAR SYSTEMS IN ONE DIMENSION

Daniel Farnoly, Benjamin Golub, Hansun Hsiung, David Kelley, Tiffany Leung, William Nicoll, Sonya Nikolaidis, Jeremy Pfund, Adam Shpigel, Julie Wu

Advisor: Dr. Paul V. Quinn
Teaching Assistant: Justin G. Hotchkiss

 

ABSTRACT

We examined the phase transition that occurs in various one dimensional granular systems [1]. We observe a phase transition in which the bottom layers begin to form a liquid to solid regime once a certain critical temperature is reached [2]. We used two types of computer simulations to test our theoretical model. We determine the first order nature of the phase transition and verify the functional form of the density of the system.

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