The Shape of a Water Droplet

Why some droplets are spherical while the others are not

Photo by Jos Speetjens on Unsplash

A dripping faucet in a kitchen is an ordinary-looking everyday thing. A thread of water emerges from the faucet and forms a droplet. Sometimes, the thread is big enough that it breaks into a series of droplets. The formation of droplets from a jet/thread of water is very rich in physics and absolutely beautiful (I…