A simple and pedagogical kinematic experiment to measure the mass‐size fractal dimension D of crumpled surfaces is presented. The experiment is inspired in the well‐known Galilean experiments with bodies rolling on inclined planes. The experimental results for D agree with those obtained from static means.
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1993
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