Open AccessON THE SECOND LIGHT FLASH EMITTED FROM A SPARK-GENERATED BUBBLE OSCILLATING IN WATER
Author(s) -
K. Vokurka
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acta polytechnica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1805-2363
pISSN - 1210-2709
DOI - 10.14311/ap.2020.60.0268
Subject(s) - flash (photography) , light emission , spark (programming language) , bubble , physics , optics , mechanics , computer science , programming language
The light emitted from the spark-generated bubbles oscillating in water is studied experimentally. Attention is paid to the emission of light from bubbles in the final stages of their first contraction and in the early stages of their following expansion. In some experiments, two close flashes of light were observed. The first light flash has already been studied in earlier works. In the present work, attention is paid to the second light flash. The relations between the first and second flashes of light and the size of the bubbles are studied and discussed in detail. It is assumed that these two light flashes are caused by two different processes taking place in the bubbles. The possible nature of these two processes is briefly discussed.