When I decided that I was going to stop under a tree for a while to let the shower of rain pass before heading home, the weather looked like this. Not even half a minute later, I was very happy I had stopped! Because the wave watching got a lot better as the wind drove […]
I’m in Manchester for Science in Public 2019 and I couldn’t help myself, I had to do some wave watching. To be fair, though: These pictures really don’t do Manchester justice as a city. It is such an amazing city! Last time I was here, I spent a whole day exploring four historical libraries that were […]
After all the professional drop photography I talked about yesterday, here is some of my own from a walk that I took after the amazing and slightly overwhelming experience of giving the laudation speech at the opening of an art exhibition. Below, I really liked how the wave rings have such different sizes and amplitudes […]
When we watch rain falling on a water surface, we observe that each raindrop causes several concentric waves with different radii. In my post on Tuesday I just stated that that was what we observe, but today I want to look into the explanation. This is what it looks like when it rains on a water surface. Not much surprise […]
