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Re: [Phys-l] question about Bernoulli

On 11/28/2010 8:03 AM, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
... the pressure reduction is not in any case the result of some kind of "preferential reduction of the perpendicular velocity component...

... in the low pressure regions. For a gas this will translate fairly directly into lower molecular velocities (in all directions)
John Mallinckrodt

I don't think that John M. wants to hold two opposite views before breakfast particularly, so I believe
the thrust of the quoted passages above must be that the reduced perpendicular velocity in a venturi waist
is not anisotropic i.e does not constitute "preferential reduction."

Brian W