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Atwood Machine in Fluid Model
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W. Christian and J. José Goncalves
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The Atwood Machine in a Fluid model shows two masses connected by strings and pulleys immersed in a water tank. Each mass is acted on by gravitational, buoyant, and drag forces.…
https://www.compadre.org/informal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10410&DocID=...
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HyperPhysics: Breaking the Sound Barrier with an Aircraft
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C. Nave
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This Hyperphysics page contains photographs of the remarkable cloud that forms around an aircraft breaking the sound barrier. The site describes how pressure changes and the ideal…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/soubar.html
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Shock Diamonds and Mach Disks
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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
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Air Cannon
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Publisher: Public Broadcasting Service
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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...
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Soap Bubbles
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This fun activity from PBS uses simple household items to explore the different shapes a soap bubble can take. It also contains a poll so that visitors can report their results and…
https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/1c32e611-da70-4919-a680-91ab1...
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Making a supersonic jet in your kitchen
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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This short article from the online APS journal Physics summarizes the results of a study of a splash produced by an object pulled through the surface of water. The article includes a…
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v3/4
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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)
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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
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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...
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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
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