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Phenomena Attending the Splashing of Water in an Electric Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. P. Gott
J. P. Gott
Affiliation:
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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Owing to a chance observation some interesting phenomena were observed during the splashing of water in an electric field. If a water drop falls into water, there is a characteristic splash of which the details were investigated photographically by Professor A. M. Worthington in the latter years of the last century. The final account of this work was given in two papers (1) and also in a book entitled A Study of Splashes (2). The splash cannot be examined with the unaided eye because the various stages of the splash follow one another too quickly. For the moment it may be said that an important stage of the splash consists of the rising up of a cylindrical column of water to a considerable height. The radius of the column is comparable with the radius of the drop.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1935 , pp. 85 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1935

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