The inspiration for this post is the incessant dripping of my shower. Why is it so irritating?
After some web searching I found out a few things. Like what happens when the water hits to make that plink noise?
This is something science has explored for many years and when slow motion photography and sound were able to solve it, boom we now know why.
Like everything else there is a schematic and here is the link if you want more information it.
Schematic showing the parameters relevant to a typical drop impact.
Basically it all comes down to an entrapped water bubble. You got it the bubble of air trapped underneath the water bubble makes the noise that makes us crazy.
Indeed, in order to produce a sound that’s loud enough to drive us batty up at night, the trapped air bubble needs to be close to the bottom of the cavity. The bubble then vibrates against the surface like a piston, driving sounds waves into the air. And into your ear. source
When it hits the air bubble makes the irritating noise. Here is a photograph from pixabay of a beautiful water drop. I can hear our dripping faucet and it does not sound beautiful.
A post coming up soon will be about the sound of water that brought both my husband and myself out of trauma after our home burned down.
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