POLYSTYRENE SPHERES AS A MODEL OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHASE TRANSITIONS
Ellen Scheuer and William Ducker
National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center:
High Performance Polymeric Adhesives and Composites, and Department of Chemistry
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia
Abstract
An apparatus was designed to perform an experiment in which an oscillating drive was applied to a two-dimensional system of spherical polystyrene particles to observe the affect of the drive on the ordering of the arrangement of the particles. In initial experiments, no change in order has been observed with the oscillating drive.