A Study of Splashes

ed from an examination of the next Series Ia, which shows the effect of letting the water-drop fall from the same height into water instead of into milk. Such a splash is difficult to photograph un

visible directly, yet every lobe on it can be clea

ith the illumination behind, such ripples are more easily visible, but arises chiefly from the fact that ripples are not so readily propagated over the surface of milk

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velocities, special precautions were taken to secure the most favourable conditions, and in order to clean the surface after the arrival of each drop, which inevitably br

nd No. 11a. In the first the surface was kept quite clean in the way described; i

he appearance of a slight depression round its base, which has just not begun in

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rising in Fig. 17, is just poised in Fig. 18, and thence onwards shows a gradually increasing centra

he smaller drop, we diminish irregularities due to oscillations of form set up on release, for the smaller drop is more spherical when lying on the dropping cup t

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