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The wrong "Bernoulli" explanation in Sci. American for April 2005

by Todd Pattist <tpattist@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aug 8, 2006 at 08:48 AM

>Bernoulli equation seems to very misunderstod by americans, even
>respected universities and Professors should know better about the
>physics!

As an American, I'm interested to hear what you think we
misunderstand  about the Bernoulli equation.

>To change a veolocity a change in force is needed!
>There is no other way around!

I presume you meant to write "To change a velocity, a force
is needed."  No "change in force" is needed - a constant
force will constantly change the velocity.  A change in
force will change the acceleration.  With this presumed
modification to your statement I would say that this is well
understood by physicists and aerodynamicists in all
countries of the world.  Do you believe that the Bernoulli
equation is somehow inconsistent with this?

>I seems like Bernoulli equation does not explain the Windsock very
>good!

The Bernoulli equation applies to airflow through a windsock
as well as airflow past a wing.  I'd be interested in any
evidence to the contrary.

>Some person has destroyed Otto Lilenthal Museum exibition in Anklam,
>Germany, by putting some Bernoulli rubbish in the halls!
>I asked if Otto Lilienthal himself wrote the false explanation, but that
>had been done by the museum chief!

Perhaps the museum chief is an American and knows what he is
doing :-)


-- 
The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which
is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any
other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the
divine.

Plato, 'Phaedrus.'
 




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