Buoyant Force and Bernoulli's Equation
By Walter Lewin - MIT
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Lecture Description
Concepts covered in this lecture include hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, fluid dynamics, and Bernoulli's Equation. The buoyant foce of air on a ballon is discussed, and then Professor Lewin demonstrates how a balloon and a pendulum behave in accelerated, closed containers. The lecture ends with some non-intuitive demos shoiing how ping pong balls behave in air streams.
Course Description
This course is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stellar Collapse, Supernovae, Astronomical observations from very high flying balloons (lecture 35), and you will be allowed a peek into the intriguing Quantum World.
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