Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly

• Published in 2012
• Added on 2012-05-23

We use braids and linking number to explain why automobile shades fold into an odd number of loops.

Links

• http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4797
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.4797v1

Other information

BibTeX entry

@article{Feist2012,
	key = {Feist2012},
	type = {article},
	title = {Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly},
	author = {Feist, Curtis and Naimi, Ramin},
	abstract = {We use braids and linking number to explain why automobile shades fold into an odd number of loops.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2012-05-23},
	date_published = {2012-05-01},
	urls = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4797,http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.4797v1},
	collections = {Easily explained,Basically physics,Fun maths facts},
	archivePrefix = {arXiv},
	arxivId = {1205.4797},
	eprint = {1205.4797},
	month = {may},
	pages = 8,
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4797 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.4797v1},
	year = 2012,
	primaryClass = {math.GT},
	urldate = {2012-05-23}
}