Pressure
and Moving Fluids
Fluid Motion
flows from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
Bernoulli's Principle
1700s, Swiss scientist Daniel Bernoulli discovered that pressure of a moving
fluid is different than the pressure of a fluid at rest
| Bernoulli's Principle | as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure exerted by the fluid decreases |
___________ Blowing air quickly between
two cans raises the air pressure between them.
Applying Bernoulli's Principle
Objects in Flight
design of wing produces lift
(creating lower pressure over the wing and higher pressure underneath)
_____________
The sum of the air pressure above and below an airplane wing creates
lift.
| lift | upward force |
___________ The Wright brothers used fluid pressures and unbalanced forces to fly the first airplane
Atomizers (figure 18 p. 440)
squeezing the bulb causes air to move across the top of the tube, a higher
pressure is created in the flask, the fluid flows up through the tube.
Chimneys(figure
19 p. 440)
hot air rises
it's hot
it's pushed
air moves above the chimney creating low pressure
air pressure difference causes the smoke to move up through te chimney.
Flying Disks (figure 20 p. 441
very similar to planes
curved upper surface creates lift
______________The
shape of an object can cause air to move more or less quickly above
or below it?