percolation

n=3


a: percolation ~
b: phase transition

What:

"A large part of the intense fundamental interest in percolation is due to the fact that percolation is like a phase transition, in the sense that there ..."


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Writer: M.F. Thorpe, P.M. Duxbury
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Date: Sep 30 2017 11:45 AM



a: percolation ~
b: Pachinko

What:

"The ball moving through the pins is similar to water moving through a solid medium" The video is a pretty good visual display.


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Date: Sep 30 2017 11:53 AM



a: percolation ~
b: small meatballs

What:

The movement of water or any other small molecule through a polymer is kinda like the movement of small meatballs in a big bowl of spaghetti. In this here analogy, the meatballs are water and the spaghetti are the polymers. This analogy maybe only relevant for polymers.


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Date: Sep 30 2017 11:56 AM



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