Water from a tap into the sink containing some water.?

Question

If you open a tap in the kitchen and let the water fall into the sink, which already contains some water, you will sometimes see droplets of water fly up from the bowl. Are these droplets water from the tap bouncing back from the surface of the water in the bowl, water already in the bowl being displaced, or a mixture of both? Bearing in mind the height difference, is the answer the same when a similar thing happens when I (a male) sometimes pee into the toilet?

Answer 1

My compliments for thinking of Physics while you pee in the toilet. The droplets are probably from the water in the sink, a consequence of the conversion of impulse of the falling droplets to the water in the sink which causes a disturbance in the surface. The disturbance, which would be like a mini "tidal wave", creates the droplets.

Answer 2

The drip, as it enters the water, bounces back, due to the surface tension of the water. As it does so, it drags a small droplet or two behind it from the water already in the sink (or toilet).

Answer 3

Same process as in lava lamps.The falling drop makes a basin shaped depression in water surface and of course the walls of this immediately rush back and when they meet a little fountain jumps upward,this is small and the surface tension between air and water will sometimes snip it off and allow the small cutoff drop to rise.
If you gently splash water into a slightly greasy sink you will
see the surface energy process demonstrated;the water film will break into small drops.
Look at a spiders web after rain,the web will be covered in tiny drops;the same sort of of drops you noticed.
You have discovered surface energy ;one of natures most important forces:never now taught in schools.Earth life could not exist without it.

Answer 4

The answer is some of both.
Look at the anology of breaking pool balls to begin the game. The cue ball has the energy when hit, it hits the triangle of balls at the other end, the energy is transferred to all the other balls and they go in all directions, the cue ball moves also.
The water in the faucet has the potential energy from height. When it falls the energy is kinetic energy, which is transferred to the other water molecules in the sink, they all move. There is a law of conservation of momentum that says that you can not destroy momentum, and that it can be transferred.

Answer 5

the water softener isn't working precise , you ought to in no way style sodium , salt or the rest interior the water , the salt is used to cleanse the resins interior the softener, your ingesting water would not no longer are available in touch With salt brine different than for the duration of regeneration of the unit this is often set to accomplish regeneration previous due at might IE 2 am . get the unit serviced or placed it into bypass till somebody corrects the priority .

Answer 6

the droplets are from both sources, the tap and the liquid already in the sink. Same as when you piss.

Answer 7

You could put some food coloring in the water that's in the sink and run a test. Or in the toilet, I guess. That's nasty, though.