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On the screen you see a photograph, taken by Hugh
Pumphrey which shows, on the left high speed photography of a
raindrop hitting water (the black
horizontal line half way through the screen is the
air/water interface);
and on the right we see
an oscilloscope trace of the hydrophone signal, which
plots pressure in the horizontal direction and time running down the
frame.
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The droplet can be seen hitting the water in frame (a). It causes a crater to form up to frame (e) [the black hemisphere visible at the base of frames (b) onwards is the hydrophone]. The crater begins to close, and it is not until frame (g) that the hydrophone shows a signal. This is coincident with a bubble being pinched off from the bottom of the crater. It is the bubble pulsation which causes the exponentially decaying sinusoid characteristic of the entrainment, the sound emitted when the bubble is entrained. |
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