154school And: Science Mathematics
154school And: Science Mathematics
154school And: Science Mathematics
TABLE 3
A QUERY
Is the drying action of a towel due wholly to capillary effects in the minute
tubes and pores of the towel, these tubes and pores being formed by the inter-
lacing fibres of the towel which form extremely narrow conical capillary tubes?
preceding this capillary action there may be, of course, a mass sweeping action
of the water off the wiped article, but ultimately capillary action (and other
surface effects, e.g., adsorption) seem to be responsible for the drying of the
article, and this is an action we rarely try to explain.
JOHN SATTERLY
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
A QUERY OF POSITION
Why so very often when one is dressing, does one find that on the floor the
right-foot shoe is on the left-hand side of the left-foot shoe? I am not left-handed
and I wonder whether this effect is just peculiar to me. Have others noticed the
same?
JOHN SATTERLY