• The bizarre physics of the ordinary water droplet
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[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=pbGz1njqhxU[/media] [QUOTE]When a droplet impacts a pool at low speed, a layer of air trapped beneath the droplet can often prevent it from immediately coalescing into the pool. As that air layer drains away, surface tension pulls some of the droplet's mass into the pool while a smaller droplet is ejected. When it bounces off the surface of the water, the process is repeated and the droplet grows smaller and smaller until surface tension is able to completely absorb it into the pool.[/QUOTE]
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Thanks!
So surface tension can only absorb liquid in segments, albeit unnoticeably tiny segments?
[QUOTE=Nitro836;39759723]So surface tension can only absorb liquid in segments, albeit unnoticeably tiny segments?[/QUOTE] Did you even read the text below the video?
[QUOTE=Nitro836;39759723]So surface tension can only absorb liquid in segments, albeit unnoticeably tiny segments?[/QUOTE] No.
It's kinda mesmerizing to watch.
[QUOTE=Nitro836;39759723]So surface tension can only absorb liquid in segments, albeit unnoticeably tiny segments?[/QUOTE] Actually, Surface Tension is where the game gets quite heated up.
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