Why Your Pee Looks Like A Chain
Steve Mould Steve Mould
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 Published On Mar 11, 2021

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Have you noticed the shape of your urine stream when you pee? It does this twisty undulating thing. But why? And why do the same waves appear when you pour a liquid from a container?

Here's my video featuring Rayleigh instability:
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The fake medical advice at the end comes courtesy of not-fake Doctor Rohin Francis. This is his excellent channel:
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Here are a couple of good videos on laminar flow:
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Image and video credits:
The video of water floating in microgravity is by NASA
The Lattice Boltzmann animation is by Richard Sear

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