{"id":2308,"date":"2003-05-01T19:10:45","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:11:20","slug":"the-changing-shape-of-a-liquid-drop-in-an-electric-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/the-changing-shape-of-a-liquid-drop-in-an-electric-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Shape of a Liquid Drop in an Electric Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Thomas Bing with Dr. Philip Taylor<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The Changing Shape of a Liquid Drop in an Electric Field<\/h3>\n<p>Ordinarily, a liquid droplet is essentially spherical.\u00a0 When a dielectric liquid drop is placed in an electric field, however, a spheroid results.\u00a0 Provided the liquid\u2019s dielectric constant is above a certain threshold value, a further increase in field strength will result in the drop forming conical tips, becoming lemon-shaped.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this project, we will model the shape such a droplet assumes by formulating equations that govern the droplet\u2019s shape and then numerically solving them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Bing with Dr. Philip TaylorThe Changing Shape of a Liquid Drop in an Electric Field<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, a liquid droplet is essentially spherical.\u00a0 When a dielectric liquid drop is placed in an electric field, however, a spheroid results.\u00a0 Provided the liquid\u2019s dielectric constant is above a certain threshold value, a further increase in field strength will result in the drop forming conical tips, becoming lemon-shaped.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this project, we will model the shape such a droplet assumes by formulating equations that govern the droplet\u2019s shape and then numerically solving them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/the-changing-shape-of-a-liquid-drop-in-an-electric-field\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Changing Shape of a Liquid Drop in an Electric Field<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[87,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}