Re: water drops

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 11:27 9/8/00 -0600, you wrote:
> This might be a very simple question: Does water dropping from an orifice
> make drops six times more massive on the moon than it would on the earth?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
It's often remarked that modern investigators have no patience for
experiments on a long timebase.
 I'm pleased to remind you that Tom Parnell, Brisbane professor of Physics
 at Queensland was not numbered with these. His experiments with a model
fluid ten percent denser than water, and viscous enough to allow leisurely
measures of droplet size is reported here.

<http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/pitchdrop.shtml>


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