Question

Question: Your hands are wet , and the restroom towel dispenser is empty . What to do to get drops of water off your hands ? How does the motion of the drops exemplify one of Newton’s law ?

Short answer

It is the example of Newton’s 1^st law of motion.

Step-by-step solution

Newton 1st law of motion

It states that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

Explanation 

The surfaces of the hands accelerate significantly when they are shaken. if the drops of water continued to remain on the hands. The friction between the hands and the water is the only force that can produce this acceleration. At this significant acceleration, the static friction force is insufficient to maintain the water motionless with regard to the skin. As a result, the water releases itself and moves along the surface. The water eventually reaches the tip of a finger before sliding off and into the air.

This is an illustration of Newton's first law in motion, since the drips move even when the hand is still.