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View Schema"Bernoulli" Levitation
| Authors | Chris Waltham, Sarah Bendall, Andrzej Kotlicki |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0206025 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0206025 |
| DOI | 10.1119/1.1524162 |
| Journal | Waltham, C. E., Bendall, S., Kotlicki, A., "Bernoulli Levitation", Am. J. Phys. 71 (2003) 176-179 |
Abstract
"Bernoulli" levitation is the basis of many popular counter-intuitive physics demonstrations. However, few of these lend themselves to a quantitative description without recourse to computational fluid dynamics. Levitation of a flat plate is the exception, and we present here a straightforward analysis which illustrates several principles of fluid mechanics in a pedagogically useful way.
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