Beams and potato chips →
Dr. Drang:
At Ryan Irelan’s request, here’s a post about the structural design of potato chips by way of Euler-Bernoulli beam theory.
Worth it for the conclusion. (But don’t skip ahead. You need to read the whole thing to appreciate the conclusion.)
(And yes, this post is almost a year old. I’ve let… quite a few articles accumulate in my Instapaper queue over the last year.)