Funny, these coincidences. I just received a flier for a talk
to be given here at Fermilab this coming Tuesday (Feb. 17th)
entitled, "The Physics of Flight: It's Newton not Bernoulli".
The flier text reads:
The Bernoulli explanation of flight that we were taught
is at best incomplete and very often misleading. A wing
develops lift by diverting air down. Lots of air! This
can be understood by simple Newtonian mechanics. With a
few simple assumptions most phenomena associated with
flight can be calculated to a good order without ever
considering the details of wing shape, or invoking
Bernoulli's principle. Topics to be covered are: lift on
a wing, inverted flight, the power curve, drag, ground
effect, wing tip vortices, and more.
Since it's in the evening (7 PM) maybe some Chicagoland folks
can attend[1].
Regards,
John
[1] But don't bother showing up if you're post-pubescent, obviously.