Unusual water wave can bounce a droplet 1000’s of occasions

A single undulating wave can bounce a droplet of water up and down for as much as an hour and a half. Researchers made the invention accidentally when learning how wave patterns emerge in water

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

An uncommon sort of water wave can repeatedly toss a water droplet into the air 1000’s of occasions with out breaking it.

For the previous decade, Nicolas Mujica on the College 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. Not too long ago, they made the unintended discovery that, underneath the best circumstances, a wave can bounce a droplet of water up and down 1000’s of occasions in a row.

The discovering got here whereas Mujica …