"Bernoulli" Levitation
Physics Education
2011-10-24 v1 Popular Physics
Abstract
"Bernoulli" levitation is the basis of many popular counter-intuitive physics demonstrations. However, few of these lend themselves to a quantitative description without recourse to computational fluid dynamics. Levitation of a flat plate is the exception, and we present here a straightforward analysis which illustrates several principles of fluid mechanics in a pedagogically useful way.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0206025,
title = {"Bernoulli" Levitation},
author = {Chris Waltham and Sarah Bendall and Andrzej Kotlicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0206025},
year = {2011}
}
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12 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to Am. J. Phys