Afternoon Hypnosis: Watch These Droplets Coalesce and Break at Terminal Velocity

It ’s ( comparatively ) well-to-do to get weewee droplet to move at terminal velocity . They do n’t even have to be moving comparative to you . Just get strain flowing upward tight enough , and the water will bulk large , without increase its fastness up or down . Then shed more water drop at it , and see what materialize .

Above is a relatively long television — but you do n’t have to watch out it all at once . And if you do decide to learn for a while , you ’ll find it ’s worth it . After a while , the picture will really give you a mother wit of how water moves . It ’s interesting to see that modest drops can come quicker than larger ones . After each crash , you learn to anticipate whether the drop will fall apart up or take in itself together again to regain stability .

What ’s really cool is the part towards the oddment of the video , in which you see the droplets widen out into umbrellas , then widen out farther into half - bubbles , and then bust . Do yourself a favor : open up another window and listen to Enya ’s Orinoco Flow while you watch this . You wo n’t regret it . It will bring around your Monday .