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Joseph Plateau
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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with
Plateau in 1843
Plateau in 1843
Plateau's phenakistiscope
Plateau's phenakistiscope
Statique expérimentale et théorique des liquides soumis aux seules forces moléculaires, 1873
Statique expérimentale et théorique des liquides soumis aux seules forces moléculaires, 1873
Plateau's laws
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Plateau's laws describe the structure of soap films. These laws were formulated in the 19th century by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau from his experimental observations. Many patterns in nature
Joseph Plateau
…problem of existence of a minimal surface with a given boundary is named after him. He conducted extensive studies of soap films and formulated Plateau's laws, which describe the structures formed by such films in foams. Statique expérimentale et théorique des liquides soumis aux seules forces moléculaires…
Bubbles in a foam of soap. Soap films meet in threes at about 120° along Plateau borders and these borders meet at vertices at about the tetrahedral a
Bubbles in a foam of soap. Soap films meet in threes at about 120° along Plateau borders and these borders meet at vertices at about the tetrahedral angle.