  An experimental approach is taken to study the dynamics of the dripping water
faucet, a simple deterministic system. The time interval between successive
drops may be affected by the many drops preceding it. The time interval is
predicted by numerical simulations to exhibit increasingly chaotic behavior
with increasing flow rate, showing transitions from single period to period-m
($m=2,4,8,16,...$) dripping, followed by a purely chaotic regime. Deterministic
regimes are identified through plots of the time interval against drop number
and against successive time interval, and through a bifurcation diagram, but
the dripping faucet does not traverse them sequentially as anticipated
numerically. Understanding the chaotic dynamics of the dripping faucet will aid
in the study of more complex chaotic systems, of which there are a plethora
across many disciplines.
