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How Hertha Ayrton explained ripples in beach sand
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When she wasn’t fighting for women’s right to vote or literally dodging police, Hertha Ayrton was obsessively boiling water in glass tanks to study sand. She single-handedly figured out the fluid instability mechanics of why waves create perfectly uniform ripples on the beach, shutting up every male physicist who thought it was just plain water friction.
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