Invisible Shelf: The Physics of Acoustic Levitation

Gravity dictates that liquids must be held in a container. But what if a chemist needs to synthesize a hyper-pure, highly reactive compound that will instantly dissolve or become contaminated if it touches the walls of a glass beaker? The sci-fi solution utilized by modern material science is Acoustic Levitation. This textbook deconstructs the incredible physics of suspending matter with pure no...