Vishal+Patel

=**__Phenomenon of a Water Droplet Bounce__**=



__**Physics of this Phenomenon**__ Surface Tension is the force that allows this pool of water to prevent the droplet of water from penetrating the top thin layer. Inside each of the water particles, polar water molecules attract to each other. A unified layer of water molecules at the surface creates surface tension. There the water behaves like a flexible sheet allowing denser objects to "sit" on the surface, as demonstrated above. Prior to making impact, the droplet of water possesses kinetic energy, which is the energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion. When this collides with the force of surface tension, the water droplet dissipates a little bit, and continues to bounce over the thin layer of cohesion. Due to the impact created when the water droplet collides with the thin layer of water with surface tension forces, it creates a shock wave that spreads through the water.

__Concepts__ Suface Tension

Waves Energy

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