Bubbles in water have been caught doing backflips for the first time


After colliding with a tilted wall, air bubbles in water execute a backflip and hit the wall for a second time as a result of they get caught in their very own wake. These acrobatics might be harnessed for cleansing

Physics



15 September 2022

Bubbles exhibit backflipping behavior when colliding tilted surfaces with low inclination angles

Bubbles exhibit backflipping behaviour when colliding tilted surfaces

Alireza (Navid) Hooshanginejad

When air bubble in water collide with a tilted floor, some bounce away after which reverse course, hitting the floor once more in a “backflipping” movement. These acrobatics are brought on by the stream of fluid round a bubble and will probably be harnessed for cleansing.

Alireza Hooshanginejad at Brown College in Rhode Island and his colleagues shot in another way sized air bubbles in a tank of water in the direction of a glass slide. The slide was held flat towards the highest of the water or tilted …