FLUID MECHANICS

• 2A SURFACE TENSION
• 2B STATICS OF FLUIDS
• 2C DYNAMICS OF FLUIDS

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2A SURFACE TENSION

• 10. Force of Surface Tension
• 15. Minimal Surface
• 20. Capillary Action
• 30. Surface Tension Propulsion

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10. Force of Surface Tension

• *soap film pullup
• *surface tension bottle
• *floating metals
• submerged float
• surface tension balance
• *bubbles blowing bubbles
• charge and surface tension
• drop soap on lycopodium powder

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15. Minimal Surface

• *ring and thread
• soap film minimal surfaces

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20. Capillary Action

• *capillary tubes
• surface tension hyperbola

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30. Surface Tension Propulsion

• surface tension boat propulsion
• mercury heart

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2B STATICS OF FLUIDS

• 20. Static Pressure
• 30. Atmospheric Pressure
• 35. Measuring Pressure
• 40. Density and Buoyancy
• 60. Siphons, Fountains, Pumps

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20. Static Pressure

• *pressure independent of direction
• pressure dependent on depth
• *dropping plate
• Pascal's paradox
• hydrostatic paradox
• *Pascal's vases
• Pascal's fountain
• *hydraulic press
• garbage bag blowup
• *Hovercraft

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30. Atmospheric Pressure

• *crush the can
• *crush a 55 gal drum
• *Magdeburg hemispheres
• soda straw contest
• *lift a stool
• *stick and newspaper
• shingle

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35. Measuring Pressure

• mercury barometer
• *pull up mercury barometer
• barometer in a tall bell jar
• manometer
• aneroid barometer

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40. Density and Buoyancy

• *weigh submerged block
• *finger in beaker
• *Archimedes' principle
• battleship in a bathtub
• *Cartesian diver
• *buoyancy of air
• density of air

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60. Siphons, Fountains, Pumps

• Hero's fountain
• siphon
• Mariotte flask and siphon
• lift pump
• hydraulic ram

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2C DYNAMICS OF FLUIDS

• 10. Flow Rate
• 20. Bernoulli Force
• 30. Viscosity
• 40. Turbulent and Streamline Flow
• 50. Vortices
• 60. Non Newtonian Fluids

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10. Flow Rate

• *velocity of efflux
• *uniform pressure drop
• pressure drop along a line

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20. Bernoulli Force

• *Bernoulli tubes
• *lifting plate
• *attracting sheets
• *funnel and ball
• *floating ball
• *curve ball
• *pen barrel bernoulli
• airplane wing
• *atomizer

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30. Viscosity

• *terminal velocity in water, glycerin
• *terminal velocity coffee filters
• viscosity of oil

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40. Turbulent and Streamline Flow

• streamline flow
• Poiseuille flow
• laminar and turbulent flow

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50. Vortices

• *smoke ring
• liquid vortices
• tornado tube
• flame tornado

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60. Non Newtonian Fluids

• cornstarch
• silly putty
• slime ball

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