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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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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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Kitchen Sink Experiments: Bubbles that sink: Antibubbles
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This Kitchen Sink Experiment by The Naked Scientists is an activity in making "antibubbles," which are the opposite of "ordinary" bubbles (a thin spherical film of air, and water…
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/bubbles-sink-an...
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My Cup Runneth Down
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Editor: American Physical Society
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Try this Physics Central feature to see an activity that illustrates the Raleigh-Taylor instability--the creation of ripples at the surface between two fluids with the higher-density…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/pictures/cup.cfm
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The Physics of Firefighting
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R. Egler; Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers, Phys. Teach.,
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This article, from The Physics Teacher, explains how water puts out fires. It also contains a description of how firefighters determine the water pressure for their hoses--and this…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2343173
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Elasticity in Biological Materials: Demonstration of aneurysms
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Publisher: Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science
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This site, from the University of Cambridge, describes an experiment to measure the pressure versus strain of a cylindrical balloon as it is inflated to produce an aneurysm.…
https://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/bioelasticity/demo.php
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Wall Tension
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This page of Hyperphysics, from Georgia State University, develops the relationship between tension, pressure, and radius in a balloon. The same ideas are then applied to the walls…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ptens.html
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Pascal's Principle
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This site from Hyperphysics provides a description of Pascal's Principle, which explains how pressure is transmitted in an enclosed fluid. A drawing and sample calculations are…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pasc.html
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PhET Simulation: Balloons & Buoyancy
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This Java simulation enables you to experiment with a balloon filled with different gases inside a container that can hold two different gases at various pressures. You can discover…
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/balloons-and-buoyancy
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