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Note on optical methods of measuring the size of small water drops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John G. wilson
John G. wilson
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Sidney sussex college
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The very small water drops which are considered in this note are as a rule met with in the form of clouds with a high numerical density of drops. The interior of such a cloud will never be in temperature equilibrium with the walls of a containing vessel, and under these conditions measurements of the rate of fall of the top of a cloud are not measures of the Stokes free fall of a single drop. Optical methods of measurement assume, therefore, a particular importance. The angular diameter of the diffraction halo has long been used as a measure of drop size in clouds; the applicability of this method for small drops will be considered. The criterion of “Rayleigh scattering” has also been employed as showing that the diameter of the drops in question was very much smaller than the wave length of light. A third method which may be applied to drops of diameter of the order of one wave-length will be discussed.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , October 1936 , pp. 493 - 498
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1936

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