Publication

The Poynting effect

Zurlo, Giuseppe
Blackwell, James
Colgan, Niall
Destrade, Michel
Citation
Zurlo, Giuseppe, Blackwell, James, Colgan, Niall, & Destrade, Michel. (2020). The Poynting effect. American Journal of Physics, 88(12), 1036-1040. doi: 10.1119/10.0001997
Abstract
Intuition suggests that twisting a cylinder will shorten it, but here it is shown that for a cylinder of an incompressible material, like rubber, twisting will always produce elongation.
Publisher
American Association of Physics Teachers
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IE