Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: reverse sprinkler

As I recall James Clerk Maxwell did a nice piece on this.

cheers,


joe

On Wed, 22 Sep
2004, Carl E. Mungan wrote:

The October AJP has a delightful treatment and history of Feynman's
famous reverse sprinkler problem. It cleared up a lot of questions
for me. I wish more articles in AJP were written at this level (for
example, a simple exposition on why radiometers turn the "wrong"
way). Carl
--
Carl E. Mungan, Asst. Prof. of Physics 410-293-6680 (O) -3729 (F)
U.S. Naval Academy, Stop 9C, Annapolis, MD 21402-5040
mailto:mungan@usna.edu http://usna.edu/Users/physics/mungan/


Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. 574-284-4662
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556