The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Paperback)

Editor's preface; Papers by G. I. Taylor; Consolidated list of papers published in volumes 1?4; Publications by G. I. Taylor not reprinted in these volumes; Papers G. I. Taylor: 1. Interference fringes with feeble light; 2. Motion of solids in fluids when the flow is not irrotational; 3. Experiments with rotating fluids; 4. The motion of a sphere in a rotating liquid; 5. Stability of a viscous liquid contained between two rotating cylinders; 6. The motion of ellipsoidal particles in a viscous fluid; 7. On the decay of vortices in a viscous fluid; 8. Experiments on the motion of solid bodies in rotating fluids; 9. The bursting of soap-bubbles in a uniform electric field with C. T. R. Wilson; 10. The viscosity of a fluid containing small drops of another fluid; 11. The formation of emulsions in definable fields of flow; 12. The holding power of anchors; 13. Measurements with a half-pitot tube; 14. Note on R. A. Bagnold's empirical formula for the critical water motion corresponding with the first disturbance of grains on a flat surface; 15. The path of a light fluid when released in a heavier fluid which is rotating; 16. Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms; 17. The action of waving cylindrical tails in propelling microscopic organisms; 18. Analysis of the swimming of long and narrow animals; 19. Formation of a vortex ring by giving an impulse to a circular disc and then dissolving it away; 20. An experimental study of standing waves; 21. Dispersion of soluble matter in solvent flowing slowly through a tube; 22. Conditions under which dispersion of a solute in a stream of solvent can be used to measure molecular diffusion; 23. The two coefficients of viscosity for a liquid containing air bubbles; 24. The action of a surface current used as a breakwater; 25. Fluid flow between porous rollers with J. C. P. Miller; 26. Fluid flow in regions bounded by porous surfaces; 27. Fluid dynamics in a papermaking machine; 28. The penetration of a fluid into a porous medium or hele-shaw cell containing a more viscous liquid with P. G. Saffman; 29. A note on the motion of bubbles in a hele-shaw cell and porous medium with P. G. Saffman; 30. The dynamics of thin sheets of fluid: I water bells; 31. The dynamics of thin sheets of fluid: II waves on fluid sheets; 32. The dynamics of thin sheets of fluid: III disintegration of fluid sheets; 33. Formation of thin flat sheets of water; 34. Deposition of viscous fluid on a plane surface; 35. Deposition of a viscous fluid on the wall of a tube; 36. On scraping viscous fluid from a plane surface; 37. Standing waves on a contracting or expanding current; 38. Cavitation of a viscous fluid in narrow passages; 39. Disintegration of water drops in an electric field; 40. The stability of a horizontal fluid interface in a vertical electric field with A. D. McEwan; 41. Conical free surfaces and fluid interfaces; 42. The force exerted by an electric field on a long cylindrical conduct conductor; 43. The circulation produced in a drop by an electric field; 44. Oblique impact of a jet on a plane surface; 45. The peeling of a flexible strip attached by a viscous adhesive with A. D. McEwan; 46. The coalescence of closely spaced drops when they are at different electric potentials; 47. Instability of jets, threads, and sheets of viscous fluid; 48. Motion of axisymmetrica bodies in viscous fluids; 49. Electrically driven jets.