Tomoo Katsuyama and Ken-ichi Nagata
Jounal of the Physical Society of Japan vol.68, p.396-400(1999)
The time interval of successive water-drips from a faucet was examined
over a wide range of the flow rate. The dripping interval alternately exhibits
a stable state and a chaotic state as the flow rate increases. In the stable
state, the volume of the drip is kept constant at fixed flow rates, and
the constant volume increases with the flow rate. In the chaotic state,
in addition to a mechanics that the drip is torn by its own weight, the
vibration of the drip on the faucet takes part in the strage behavior of
the interval.
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