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American Journal of Physics -- February 2003 -- Volume 71, Issue 2, pp. 176

Bernoulli levitation

Chris Waltham, Sarah Bendall, and Andrzej Kotlicki

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada

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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 an analysis that illustrates several principles of fluid mechanics in a pedagogically useful way. © 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers.

© 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers

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teaching, fluid dynamics

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Received Feb 2002
Accepted Oct 2002
Online Jan 2003

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0002-9505 (print)  

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1524162

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