Re: [Phys-l] Bernoulli equation (redux)

[Ken Caviness <caviness@southern.edu>]

Good thoughts!  Congrats on the publication, and thank you for reminding us of what we should have thought of automatically.

Ken

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> bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Carl Mungan
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> Subject: [Phys-l] Bernoulli equation (redux)
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> In November, the list discussed a question that John Mallinckrodt brought up
> about the Bernoulli equation not being Galilean invariant.
> I followed that up into a short publication in the European Journal of Physics:
>
> http://usna.edu/Users/physics/mungan/Publications/EJP9.pdf
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> It seems to me that we quite often discuss interesting issues on PHYS-L. I
> would like to encourage other members of the list to take items that strike
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> 2. It preserves it in a more accessible manner than searching PHYS-L archives
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