Grinnell physics majors Jill Rix ’19, Yue Yu ’17, and Sam Ross ’16 have published the results of their 2015 and 2016 summer research in Physical Review E, the flagship journal of the American Physical Society. Working with Barbara Breen, assistant professor of physics at Grinnell, the students successfully demonstrated mechanical stochastic resonance in an elegant tabletop experiment that harvested wind energy from a flapping flag to enhance signal detection.
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