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Thursday, March 17, 2022
Interesting Fluids studies - droplets on windshields
One of the Fluid Dynamics options listed in CABS has to do with studying drops of water (or other liquids) on windshields of cars, or at least simulating this in a lab. Fluids offer a nearly endless range of possibilities of phenomena and situations to study, and in many cases to do so fairly easily, at least for high school level research. This type of work can be done in a school lab or even at home, perhaps in one's basement!
To hopefully convince you that this can provide original work, a formal study on droplets on windshields was just published in a professional peer-reviewed journal. And when one thinks about variations on a theme, many more possible studies develop from the original (good research typically creates more questions than answers, and keeps that research stream alive for many years). Keep observing, keep questioning, and keep doing interesting science!
