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Generating Explanations for an Emergent Process: The Movement of Sand Dunes  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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L. Barth-Cohen
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L. Barth-Cohen, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 77-80.
The movement of sand dunes in the desert is an emergent process; the overall movement of a dune is influenced both by the random interactions among individual sand particles and by…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10389&DocID=18...
Splash (fluid mechanics) 
  
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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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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
Bottled tornado 
  
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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
PBS Learning Media: The Physics of Sailing 
  
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This 5-minute video explains how modern sailboats move forward by generating lift. The video explores the aerodynamic forces generated by two parts of the sailboat: the sails and the…
https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/kqed09.sci.phys.maf.kqedsaili...
Physclips: The Physics of Sailing 
  
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This multimedia lesson introduces the physics of modern sailboats. It explores how boats can sail at 40 degrees into the wind through counteracting lift forces generated by the…
https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html
NOVA: Lift and Drag 
  
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This interactive tutorial examines the aerodynamic forces of lift and drag. Students explore the two principles that combine to produce lift: the Bernoulli Effect and Newton's Third…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/lift-drag.html
Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You - Lift 
  
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This lesson for Grades 5-8 explores how engineers use Bernoulli's Principle to design airplane wings that produce lift. It is the first of four lessons about the key forces in…
https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson02
Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Weight 
  
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This lesson is the second of a four-part unit for Grades 5-8 on the key forces in flight: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Weight is the measure of the gravitational force that pulls…
https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_airplanes_lesson03
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