An audit will tell you how much stuff came down and how fast, but only a real understanding of the whole environment will reveal at what point it all stabilizes and comes to rest, how high the piles ...

If slippery slopes are paved with good intentions, we now have the Transportation Department to thank for giving travel agents something new to slide around on. Let's say you're a travel agent and you ...

Growing up in a household where there was plenty of exposure to home construction cultivated a fascination with dirt and sand piles, necessary components of many varied projects in which a parent was ...

A heap is created when a powder is poured onto a surface. It is widely known that both the heap shape and the repose angle strongly rely on grain properties. Specifically, a non-cohesive powder forms ...

IT is well known that the friction of solids on snow surfaces is larger than on ice surfaces. The higher kinetic friction obtained on snow is attributed to the extra work done in displacing and ...

ANGLE OF REPOSE : FOUR AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS IN EGYPT : LINDA CONNOR LYNN DAVIS TOM VAN EYNDE RICHARD MISRACH ESSAY BY SARAH ANNE MCNEAR ENDNOTES BY EMILY TEETER ...