Experiments were carried out on liquid drop falling in the air or rising in the water, and from the results of these experiments, it was found the general rules upon the motion and stability of a fluid drop or bubble moving through any fluid medium. The terminal velocity of the drop increases as the size of drop increases up to a maximum value, from where again the velocity decreases, and finally the drop breaks up causing unstable wave motion. Below the maximum velocity, the value of nondimensional quantity [numerical formula] is constant and equals to 1.03, and above it the value of ditto is 2.65. The nondimensional quantity [numerical formula] is about 1.3 at the point of maximum velocity, and it is about 2.3 at the point of instability. In the previous formula, γ is the radius of drop, v is the velocity of drop, g is gravitational acceleration, γ
a and γ
b are the specific weights of the medium and the drop, and T is the surface tension at the interface of the drop and the medium.
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