| Issue |
Emergent Scientist
Volume 6, 2022
IPT 2020
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|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 2 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/emsci/2022002 | |
| Published online | 01 June 2022 | |
Research Article
Suction-ejection of a ping-pong ball in a falling water-filled cup
Magistère de physique d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay,
91405
Orsay,
France
* e-mail: antoine.barlet@universite-paris-saclay.fr
** e-mail: nemo.malhomme@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Received:
3
April
2021
Accepted:
20
December
2021
Dropping a water-filled cup with a ping-pong ball inside to the ground expels the ball much higher than its initial height. During free fall, the absence of gravity in the reference frame of the cup makes capillary forces dominant, causing the ball to be sucked into water. At impact, the high velocity ejection is due to the strong Archimedes’ force caused by vertical acceleration. In this paper, we study the dynamics of the capillary sinking of the ball during free fall and the ejection speed at impact, using tracking and high-speed imaging. In particular, we show that at short-time, the sinking is governed by capillary and added mass forces.
Key words: Capillary Suction / Surface Tension / Free Fall / Buoyancy
© A. Barlet and N. Malhomme, published by EDP Sciences, 2022
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