Stick Bombs

As a teaser for the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" in the mathematics department at the TU Munich, Jürgen Richter-Gebert and his team show how to build "bombs" from wooden sticks, which surprisingly contain lots of mathematics.

  • Date: 26.06.2015, 12:27

Have fun:

https://youtu.be/8tFx77MoKLQ

And here the maths behind stick bombs, as well as the "explosions" in the Lange Nacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvd6orbJiHg

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