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Physics in Action: Fluids in Space 
  
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Physics Central; Publisher: American Physical Society
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Find out how astronauts can float about in their orbiting spacecraft and feel no effects of gravity. See what boiling water looks like in space.
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/fluids.cfm
Not Just Another Old Flame 
  
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Publisher: Science@NASA
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This NASA website explores flames in microgravity and shows photos of flames in space. Also, it describes a related experiment in which spiral patterns are observed when a slowly…
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast12may_1/
Bizarre Boiling 
  
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This NASA website has QuickTime videos that compare boiling water on Earth and in space. A photo shows the bubble that forms in space once some of the water is boiled. Text provides…
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast07sep_2/
Counting Calories 
  
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P. Doherty
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Check out this site by Paul Doherty, Senior Scientist at the Exploratorium, to learn about the burning peanut experiment and about food energy and how it is measured. The site…
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/food/countingcalories.html
Dipping Bird 
  
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Publisher: Exploratorium
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This Exploratorium activity uses dipping birds to provide an introduction to heat engines which convert heat energy to mechanical work. The site contains an explanation of the…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/dipping-bird
Ripples on Icicles 
  
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Publisher: University of Toronto: Experimental Nonlinear Physics Group
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This website, from the University of Toronto, provides a discussion of the instability that gives rise to ripples on the surface of icicles. A description of this instability is…
http://web.archive.org/web/20120305200943/http://www.physics.utoronto.ca...
Make-a-Flake 
  
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Publisher: Barkley
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Explore symmetry and snowflakes at this site by Barkley. On the screen, a piece of paper will be folded for you, and all you have to do is cut away whatever you like with the…
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/
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The Physics of Firefighting 
  
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R. Egler; Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers, Phys. Teach., 28 (9), 599 (1990).
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
This Model Can Take the Heat 
  
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Publisher: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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This site provides a description of how research teams from the Lawrence Livermore and the Los Alamos National Laboratories are joining forces to develop a physics-based model of…
https://str.llnl.gov/content/pages/past-issues-pdfs/2002.11.pdf#page=6