We study the impact of a line mass onto a liquid-gas interface. At early times we find a similarity solution for the interfacial deformation and show how the resulting surface tension force slows the fall of the mass. We compute the motion beyond early times using a boundary integral method, and find conditions on the weight and impact speed of the mass that determine whether it sinks or is trapped by the interface. We find that for given impact speed there is a critical weight above which the mass sinks, and we investigate the asymptotic behavior of this critical weight in the limits of small and large impact speeds. Below this critical weight, the mass is trapped by the interface and subsequently floats. We also compare our theoretical results with some simple tabletop experiments. Finally, we discuss the implications of our work for the vertical jumps of water-walking arthropods. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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