IN connexion with Bernal's theory of liquids, Scott 1 has determined the packing density of equal spheres by experiments with steel balls. In this laboratory we were interested in the dense random ...

Imagine placing oranges or tennis balls into a rigid container. How can the balls be arranged such that they occupy the largest volume fraction of the container, otherwise known as the largest packing ...

More than 2,300 years ago, Aristotle was wrong. Now, in the past year, a flurry of academic activity is suddenly zooming in on an answer to a problem akin to wondering how many people can fit into a ...

MR. S. E. ACKERMANN'S axiom 1 that spherical lumps of coal of equal size have the same bulk density irrespective of the actual size is surely applicable to any symmetrical arrangement of such spheres, ...