{"id":226285,"date":"2025-12-02T00:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-your-faucet-drips-water-jet-breakup-traced-to-angstrom-scale-thermal-capillary-waves"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:38:37","slug":"why-your-faucet-drips-water-jet-breakup-traced-to-angstrom-scale-thermal-capillary-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-your-faucet-drips-water-jet-breakup-traced-to-angstrom-scale-thermal-capillary-waves","title":{"rendered":"Why your faucet drips: Water jet breakup traced to angstrom-scale thermal capillary waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SF6aDHbv4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some phenomena in our daily lives are so commonplace that we don\u2019t realize there could be some very interesting physics behind them. Take a dripping faucet: why does the continuous stream of water from a faucet eventually break up into individual droplets? A team of physicists studied this question and reached surprising conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough in understanding how a water jet breaks up into droplets was made by a team consisting of Stefan Kooij, Daniel T. A. Jordan, Cees J. M. van Rijn, and Daniel Bonn from the University of Amsterdam (Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute \/ Institute of Physics), along with Neil M. Ribe from the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/jf6w-l5sy\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some phenomena in our daily lives are so commonplace that we don\u2019t realize there could be some very interesting physics behind them. Take a dripping faucet: why does the continuous stream of water from a faucet eventually break up into individual droplets? A team of physicists studied this question and reached surprising conclusions. The breakthrough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}