Resumen de “Ripples” in an Aluminum Pool?

Si-Yin Wang, James Rohr, V. F. Nesterenko

• Our motivation for this article is for students to realize that opportunities for discovery are all around them. Discoveries that can still puzzle present day researchers. Here we explore an observation by a middle school student concerning the production of what appears to be water-like “ripples” produced in aluminum foil when placed between two colliding spheres. We both applaud and explore the student’s reasoning that the ripples were formed in a melted aluminum pool.