This section covers lectures 24-26.
Readings
Textbooks
No textbook readings in this section.
Additional Readings
- Eggers, Jens, and Emmanuel Villermaux. “Physics of Liquid Jets.” Reports on Progress in Physics 71, no. 3 (2008): 036601.
- Prof. John Bush’s Website. Professor John Bush has many images of surface tension related phenomena, including water striders walking, jumping, and playing on the water’s surface.
- Complex Fluids and Interfacial Physics Laboratory website.
- Woodward, Ian. “Plant Science: Tall Storeys.” Nature 428, no. 6985 (2004): 807–08.
- Thoroddsen, S. T., and K. Takehara. “The Coalescence Cascade of a Drop.” Physics of Fluids 12, no. 6 (2000): 1265–67.
Videos Seen During Class
- Surface Tension in Fluid Mechanics Video and Film Notes (PDF - 1.1MB)
- Gobbling Droplets
- Public Domain TV. “NASA: Amazing Experiments with Water in Zero Gravity.” August 1, 2012. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ntQ7qGilqZE
- Dan Hentschel. “NASA Water Balloons in Zero G (High Quality).” October 18, 2009. YouTube. http://youtu.be/gTqLQO3L4Ko
