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Activity 1: solve for size and speed of a drop.
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Useful units for calculations
Remember: dyne = 1 g cm/s2 (force in cm-g-s units) = 10-5 Newtons. Using cgs units is easiest for calculations with small insects, as the values are often order-one.
• Density of air ρ = 10-3 g/cm3 • Density of water ρw = 1 g/cm3 • Gravity g ≈ 1000 cm/s2 • Surface tension σ = 70 dynes/cm
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Answer 1: Raindrops heavier and faster than mosquitoes
**Savile, D. & Hayhoe, H. The potential effect of drop size on *Clements, A. The sources of energy for flight in mosquitoes.
• raindrop radius ~ 1 - 4 mm • raindrop mass ~ 2 - 50 mosquitoes • raindrop speed ~ 5 - 9 m/s >> mosquito speed (1 m/s)
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Activity 2: What is frequency of impacts for a flying mosquito?�
This is a problem of mass conservation. Rain intensity I is given in the units of cm/hour. We must convert this unit into a number of drops that falls on top of the mosquito per second.
This problem is related to the the first problem in “flying circus of physics”, which asks is wetter to run or walk through the rain. Here we recognize that mosquitoes fly so slowly that impacts on the mosquito’s frontal area are negligible compared to that on top.
So consider only drops falling atop the mosquito where plan-view area of wings and legs is Am. This area is given by considering all drops that impact or even graze the legs (See diagram on next page where an area is sketched out that is one drop radius wider than legs and body). Students should estimate this area Am to 1 significant digit.
First convert I to cm per second. Then, every second, we consider the volume of drops that fall to fill a volume that is Am wide and I tall. We can convert this into a mass of fluid falling per second using the density of water ρ used in activity 1. Lastlly, we can find frequency of drops f by remembering each drop has a fixed volume m calculated from activity 1.
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Activity 2 solution: Frequency of impacts impact area Am ~ 30-40 mm2.
rain intensity I ~ 50 mm/hr
frequency of impacts: once every 25 sec
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f =ρIAm
mdrop
~ 125hitss
Direct impact (red) zone composes 1/4 total area.
Glancing Impacts are 3X more likely.
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Activity 3: What is force of raindrop after glancing blow
This is a problem of conservation of angular momentum.
The
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Activity 3: Glancing Blow
Kinema'cs
τ~ 10‐2s
α~104rad/s2
Torque applied by the drop: r × F = I α
Geometry: I = m2R2/2 ≈ 4 x 10-5 g cm2 R = 1 mm
F ~ 3.5 dynes ~ 2 mosquito weights
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θ
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Direct Hit
Inelas1ccollision—mosquitoanddropmoveasonemass.Mosquitopushedmanybodylengthsbeforereleased.
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Insect Mimics Styrofoam “Mosquitoes”
Mosquito m2 ~ 0.4 – 4 mg
m ~ 2 mg
Free body impacts
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Activity 4: What is the final speed of raindrop-cum-mosquito
after impact? Consider conservation of linear momentum.
In particular consider the momentum before and after impact.
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Mosquitoes are so lightweight, raindrops loose very little momentum (2-17%) upon
impact.
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Small drops slow down more
Drizzle Small Drop (m1 / m2 = 9) large deformation
Rain Large Drop (m1 / m2 = 100)
slight deformation
R1 = 1.53 mm R2 = 2.75 mm
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Terminal velocity raindrop on a solid surface: which is 104 times the weight of a mosquito.
Collisions with body of high inertia
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F ~ m1u1 /τ ≈ 5 ×104 dynes
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Larger drops apply more force
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Position Velocity
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Mosquitoes Accelerate 50-300 G
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τ τ = 0.5 −1.8 ms
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F = 2 dynes × 300 G = 600 dynes ≈ 0.61 gf
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human tolerance
flea jumping
Max force: 4000 dynes (flight still possible) – 10,000 dynes (death)
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