Monday, April 21, 2008

So I started reading the paper for the project, and it started by doing nondimensionalization just like we did in class on Monday. So that was exciting.

The lecture notes for lecture 10 are, again, pretty reasonable. It would be nice if it were more explicit in them that we aren't taking any particular initial drop condition - I kept going back and trying to figure out what we were assuming about initial conditions, until I realized that the final product of the first section would be a DE for the drop, and that we didn't actually start with any particular L and h when doing the nondimensionalization. Only in the last section did we figure out what the shape of the drop can be.

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