High-speed video is wonderful for appreciating fluid motion in ways we can’t on our own. In this video from Warped Perception, we see what happens when a vibrating tuning fork Keep reading
Tag: droplet ejection
A Burst of Microdroplets
If you hold a bubbly beverage like champagne or soda near your face, you’ll feel a light mist of tiny, nearly invisible droplets.These droplets form when bubbles reach the surface Keep reading
A Viscous Splash
The splash of a drop may be commonplace, but it is still a mesmerizing and fertile phenomenon. When it comes to splashing, scientists are still learning how to predict the Keep reading
Rim Break-Up
Splashing drops often expand into a liquid sheet and spray droplets from an unstable rim. Although this behavior is key to many natural and industrial processes, including disease transmission and Keep reading
Chinese Spouting Bowl Physics
In their newest video, the Slow Mo Guys recreated one of my favorite effects: vibration-driven droplet ejection. For this, they use a Chinese spouting bowl, which has handles that the Keep reading
The Tibetan Singing Bowl
Rubbing a Tibetan singing bowl creates sound and a spray of droplets inside the container. But the reverse works, too! Instead of rubbing the bowl, one can project sound at Keep reading
How Rainfall Can Spread Pathogens
Rainfall may provide a mechanism for soil bacteria to spread. A new study examines how raindrops hitting infected soil can eject bacteria into the air. When drops fall at the rate Keep reading
Resonating Bowls
Rub your hands on the handles of a Chinese resonance bowl and you can generate a spray of tiny droplets. The key to this, as the name suggests, is vibration. Keep reading
Blowing Through a Straw
As kids, most of us got in trouble at some point for blowing through a straw into our nearly-empty drinks. What you see here is a consequence of such misbehavior, Keep reading
Sea Foam
Photographer Lloyd Meudell captures surrealistic images of breaking sea foam. Interestingly, the sea foam is essentially a three-phase fluid made up of air, water, and sand. Yet despite the surrealism Keep reading