The Sound Produced by a Dripping Tap is Driven by Resonant Oscillations of an Entrapped Air Bubble

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 9515 - 12
• Main Authors: Phillips, Samuel, Agarwal, Anurag, Jordan, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 22.06.2018; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/166/988; 639/766/189; Air-water interface; Engineering Sciences; Entrainment; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hypotheses; multidisciplinary; Oscillations; Reactive fluid environment; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sound; Underwater

This paper details an investigation into the characteristic ‘plink’ sound produced by water droplets impacting a liquid surface, such as those falling from a dripping tap. Modern high-speed video and audio capture techniques have been applied to this problem for the first time. Previous literature i...