A bouncing water drop
Camila Sandivari et al.
An uncommon variety of water wave can repeatedly toss a water droplet into the air thousands of times with out breaking it.
For the previous decade, Nicolas Mujica on the University of Chile and his collaborators have been learning how wave patterns emerge on the floor of water when it’s shaken or in any other case disturbed. Recently, they made the unintentional discovery that, below the fitting situations, a wave can bounce a droplet of water up and down thousands of times in a row.
The discovering got here whereas Mujica …