College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
2C20.10 - Bernoulli's Principle - Venturi Tubes
The Venturi tube demos may need to have water added to them. A disposable syringe with a long curved or bent needle seems to work the best. Too much air pressure will draw the water up far enough that it will be blown out the other side.
- Paul Hewitt, "Answer to April Figuring Physics", TPT, Vol. 57, #5, May 2019, p. 339.
- Carl E. Mungan, "Pressure Change in an Arterial Constriction", TPT, Vol. 53, #9, Dec. 2015, p. 561.
- Tyler Rohr and Jim Rohr, "Half Empty or Half Full?", TPT, Vol. 53, #5, May 2015, p. 275.
- Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Water Spout", TPT, Vol. 51, #2, Feb. 2103, p. 82.
- Nathaniel R. Greene and Matthew R. Dworsak, "Bernoulli at the Gas Pump", TPT, Vol. 39, #9, Sept. 2001, p. 346.
- Paul Hewitt, "Figuring Physics: Air Bubbles in Water", TPT, Vol. 38, #7, Oct. 2000, p. 394.
- Brian W. Holmes, "My Teacher is a Blowhard", TPT, Vol. 34, #6, Sept. 1996, p. 362.
- Robert P. Bauman, "The Author Replies", TPT, Vol. 33, #6, Sept. 1995, p. 325.
- Bruce D. Bedford, "The Flying Controversy", TPT, Vol. 33, #6, Sept. 1995, p. 324.
- Robert Bauman and Rolf Schawaneberg, "Interpretation of Bernoulli's Equation", TPT, Vol. 32, #8, Nov. 1994, p. 478.
- Henry S. Badeer and Costas E. Synolakis, "The Bernoulli-Poiseuille Equation", TPT, Vol. 27, #8, Nov. 1989, p. 598.
- A. Sieradzan and W. Chaffee, "Bernoulli Revisited: A Simple Demonstration", TPT, Vol. 27, #4, Apr. 1989, p. 306.
- David H. Martin, "The Author Replies", TPT, Vol. 21, # 5, May 1983, p. 282.
- Mario Iona, "Beyond Bernoulli", TPT, Vol. 21, # 5, May 1983, p. 282.
- David H. Martin, "Misunderstanding Bernoulli", TPT, Vol. 21, # 1, Jan. 1983, p. 37.
- Norman F. Smith, "Bernoulli and Newton in Fluid Mechanics", TPT, Vol. 10, #8, Nov. 1972, p. 451.
- Robert P. Bauman, "An Alternative Derivation of Bernoulli's Principle", AJP, Vol. 68, #3, Mar. 2000, p. 288.
- Klaus Weltner, "A Comparison of Explanations of the Aerodynamic Lifting Force", AJP, Vol. 55, #1, Jan. 1987, p. 50.
- R. L. Hartman, "Bernoulli's Law Demonstrator", AJP, Vol. 34, #5, May 1966, p. 445.
- Freier and Anderson, "Fj-1", A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.
- "F-210: Constriction of Air Flow", DICK and RAE Physics Demo Notebook.
- Richard Manliffe Sutton, "M-294", Demonstration Experiments in Physics.
- Jearl Walker, "Why a Fluid Flows Faster When the Tube Is Pinched", The Amateur Scientist, July, 1987.
- Matt Bobrowsky, "Q: Is It Really Caused by the Bernoulli Effect?", Science & Children, Nov./Dec. 2018, www.nsta.org/elementaryschool
- R. W. Pohl, Physical Principles of Mechanics and Acoustics, p. 193.
- Charles Vivian, "How Water Spurts", Science Experiments & Amusements For Children, p. 65.
- Neil A. Downie, "17: Bernoulli's Clock", Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects, p. 142.
- John Welch, "Abstract: Pressure in Air Stream", 2005 Apparatus Competition, Salt Lake City, UT.
- W. Bolton, "Bernoulli Effect", Book I - Properties of Materials, Physics Experiments and Projects, 1968, p. 25.
- Julius Sumner Miller, Q108 & A108, Millergrams I – Some Enchanting Questions for Enquiring Minds, p. 69 & 116.
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