The falling raindrop, revisited

Alan D. Sokal

doi:10.1119/1.3246871

The falling raindrop, revisited

Alan D. Sokal

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Abstract

I reconsider the problem of a raindrop falling through mist, collecting mass, and generalize it to allow an arbitrary power-law form for the accretion rate. I show that the coupled differential equations can be solved by the simple trick of temporarily eliminating time in favor of the raindrop's mass as the independent variable.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	014912AJP
Pages (from-to)	643-645
Number of pages	3
Journal	American Journal of Physics
Volume	78
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3246871
State	Published - May 2010

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