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Close-up image of a red-dyed water droplet on a guitar string that's just been plucked. A blurry finger is just visible on the right side. Text reads: "When the string is plucked"

Composite image of three droplets detaching from (unseen) strings. On the left, a red droplet with many secondary droplets forming on its tail. In the middle a green droplet with a long, smooth tail jet. On the right, a blue droplet with a long tail that repeatedly expands and contracts in radius without breaking. Text reads, "Let's move to the laboratory and compare many different parameters."

Composite image showing two different droplets as they start to detach from the string. On the left, a green glycerin droplet is still connected to the string via a thick, smooth sheet. On the right, which is dimmed, a red water drop is just detaching. It also has a thin sheet at its rear, but this one has capillary waves along it. Text over the green drop reads, "No wave on the sheet due to viscous dissipation."

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