This is another result which is (contra-intuitively?) independent of the
value of g, but is clearly invalid for g = 0. In that case the derivation
encounters 0/0.
A moon test would be interesting.
How about a test on a rotating platform?
Good demo: a free fall test.
Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Mallinckrodt" <ajm@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Bernoulli and viscosity
| . . .
| That analysis predicts a range of 2[h*H]^1/2 where h is the depth of
| the hole and H is its height above the surface on to which the stream
| plays . . .