der k-Raum

water drops

Today we see some water droplets climbing down a shashlyk skewer just to fall down, just like Newton's apple.

This photo shows five small droplets that have left the tip right after a very large drop (not shown):

In our second picture we see a long-time exposure (10 ms), but taken with a stroboscopic illumination of 100 Hz flashes. The single droplets on the right are the same one, with 10 ms of time between each illumination. In the main stream, you might see similar clusters of droplets falling down.

And finally, a similar picture taken with a 50 Hz flash; due to the longer time, we have lost some contrast. But the small clusters of droplets are more pronounced.