A Study of Splashes

There will be but few of my readers who have not, in some heavy shower of rain, beguiled the tedium of enforced waiting by watching, perhaps half-unconsciously, the thousand lit...

I have some hope that, by the enumeration of the many surprising and puzzling facts mentioned in the last chapter, I may have succeeded in producing in the mind of my reader som...

In the present chapter will be described the splash that follows the entry of a _solid_ sphere falling vertically into a liquid from a small height, and I should like to persuad...

If we gradually increase the velocity with which a well-polished sphere enters the liquid we find that there is a gradual transition from the silent "smooth" or "sheath" splash...

The reader's attention has now been directed to various features which, with certain modifications, will be found in many of the splashes that we shall examine; but so far the l...

It might well be expected that the effect of increasing the height of fall of our drop to 100 cm. would be simply to emphasize the phenomena already observed, and to obtain a hi...

A slight delay in the passage of this book through the press has enabled me to obtain some of the missing information referred to in the opening paragraph of the last chapter.

We will now turn to the photographic record itself. The first series shows the splash of a drop of water weighing ·2 of a gram, and therefore 7·36 millimetres (or rather less th...

Our investigation has so far been limited to what we can see from above the surface of the liquid; nor perhaps would it occur to any one acquainted only with so much as we have...

We have now reached the end of the story, as far at least as I am able to tell it. But there is certainly more to be found out. No one has yet examined what happens when a rough...

I have stated that the addition of the milk to the water made but little difference in the character of the resulting splash. It does, however, make certain differences in detai...