"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
01/13/2014 at 20:59 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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In the continuing saga of choosing a science project for my son, we (well, I ) came across !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . I thought it would be a good way to introduce my son to Bernoulli, and tie it into his interest in airplanes. What do you think?
Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna
> ttyymmnn
01/13/2014 at 21:05 |
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Not an Aero Engineer here, but Bernoulli's Principle is the best. When my Physics professor first showed it to me I was like:
f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
01/13/2014 at 21:11 |
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Looks like a nice project with materials from around the house.
Here are some more...
http://howthingsfly.si.edu/sites/default/…
Jayhawk Jake
> ttyymmnn
01/13/2014 at 21:25 |
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That looks like a fun one. I don't know of anything much better, although a quick one you could add to it is stick a candle in front of a bottle, like a wine bottle. You can blow out the candle by blowing at the bottle because the air flows around the bottle.
Grindintosecond
> ttyymmnn
01/13/2014 at 21:30 |
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That's a good one. Also, besides air in motion creating low pressure, see if there's an opposite experiment...being the cushion of air of a hovercraft or ground-effect type of vehicles that some sort of experiment could replicate in much the same way. I have no idea what that could be but it would be cool as well...but first steps....first steps.Personally I'd like to show how throwing money at an airplane makes it fly instead of ol Bernoulli.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
01/13/2014 at 21:36 |
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Or how throwing money at a car makes it slow.
thereisnospork
> ttyymmnn
01/13/2014 at 21:43 |
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Amongst the truly kid-friendly stuff this has always been one of my favorite demos: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/201… Can't say I've done it personally though.
Also a DIY ferrofluid + electromagnet (ideally plus a variable voltage power supply, or with something like an mp3 player's output hooked up to it) could probably create some impressive visuals while covering a range of important scientific principles.
Ad Astra
> ttyymmnn
01/13/2014 at 22:05 |
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While not related to aero, the double split experiment is really cool. This video shows an easy way to perform it using a laser pointer, tape, and wire.
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Grindintosecond
> ttyymmnn
01/14/2014 at 08:49 |
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good one. The Toyota F1 project is also a good example.