Answer to the Question 05/97
The question was:When you throw a stone at a glancing angle into the water it skips several times before sinking. Can you increase the number of skips by modifying the angle or velocity at which the stone is thrown? Can you increase it by choosing a stone of special weight or shape? Is there a limit to the number of skips?
(2/2003) We waited for many years for the solution of this problem. Finally, we saw a paper by Lyderic Bocquet from Departement de Physique des Materiaux, Universite Lyon that has been published on xxx.lanl.gov preprint server (physics/0210015). You can find a copy of the paper here.
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