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On 05/22/2009 07:37 AM, Scott Nara wrote:
> I'm curious here and am going to take a moment to make sure my own
> understanding is solid. Are you arguing against a Bernoullian perspective
> or against their explaination of the Bernoullian perspective?
Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with Bernoulli's principle.
Alas Bernoulli's principle is often misused, but that is neither here
nor there; the same can be said of Newton's laws of motion, which can
be misused in innumerable ways, as our students constantly remind us.
> From my
> understanding, Bernoulli's principle is applicable here.
Yes, it is.
The "National Park" explanation as described by Donald Smith was wrong
long before it got to Bernoulli.
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A careful, detailed, illustrated explanation of how a wing works can be
found at
http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html
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