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Walker, Jearl – Scientific American, 1985
Discusses forces that shape the behavior of water as a drop meanders down a windowpane. A homemade apparatus for studying meanders is described along with several experiments. Contact angles, molecule attraction, surface area, air tension, and gravity drag forces are some of the topics addressed. (DH)
Descriptors: College Science, Fluid Mechanics, Higher Education, Motion
