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Bottled tornado 
  
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Publisher: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization
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The activity on this site from Australia's national science agency CSIRO enables visitors to connect two plastic bottles so water will flow from one to the other and produce a…
http://web.archive.org/web/20120415173220/http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Ed...
How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift 
  
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D. Anderson and S. Eberhardt; Publisher: Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology, and Research
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This article by a physicist and an aeronautical engineer explains the physics of how aircraft wings produce lift. It shows how several popular explanations are clearly wrong, and…
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http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/airflylvl3.htm
Shock Diamonds and Mach Disks 
  
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Publisher: Areospaceweb
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The article presents and explains the diamond-shaped pattern that appears in the rocket engine and jet engine exhausts. Several photographs illustrate this phenomenon, and images…
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/propulsion/q0224.shtml
Air Cannon 
  
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This site from PBS shows how to build a simple air cannon with household items. It also contains a poll so that visitors can report their results and compare them with those of other…
https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/b930c230-7560-4cc7-b2d4-cf37a...
Splash (fluid mechanics) 
  
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Publisher: Wikipedia
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This Wikipedia page provides the scientific definition of splash, and mentions that objects falling in the sand can produce a splash and that meteorites are said to splash. The page…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_(fluid_mechanics)
Physicists determine air gives liquids their splash 
  
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Publisher: University of Chicago Chronicle
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This article reports on a University of Chicago investigation that shows how the splash of a drop depends on the pressure and chemical nature of the gas that the drop falls through.…
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050331/splash.shtml
Physics in Action: Sonic Shock 
  
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Visit this site to learn about shock waves and how they depend on the speed of a moving object. You'll find out how a "blunt body" minimizes heating on reentry and see images of…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/shockwaves.cfm
Balancing Ball 
  
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Publisher: Exploratorium
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At this site from the Exploratorium, users can discover how to levitate a table tennis ball with the stream of air from a vacuum cleaner. Also users will find an explanation of what…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/balancing-ball
Exploratorium: Condiment Diver 
  
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This activity from the Exploratorium provides a classic science demonstration of the buoyancy of a Cartesian diver, named after scientist René Descartes. A diver made from a…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/condiment-diver
Bubble Suspension 
  
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Try this activity from the Exploratorium-- you'll make the startling observation that soap bubbles can float! Dry ice is required, so gloves and adult supervision are a must. The…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/bubble-suspension
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