Timeline for Why a drop of water acquires the shape of circle while getting absorbed on a bed sheet?
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| Jun 20, 2019 at 6:44 | history | edited | Shreyansh Pathak |
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| Jun 19, 2019 at 18:47 | answer | added | Michael Walsby | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 18:36 | comment | added | SescoMath | By circular symmetry. At least locally the water droplet can't tell the difference between any particular direction so it treats each as the same. This results in the droplet appearing circular when it spreads on the bedsheet. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 18:33 | history | asked | Shreyansh Pathak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |