the overall effect also slows the air down a bit, causing drag
should be "... slows the wing down a bit..."
You have caused me something that I dub "retrospective embarrassment/shame memory syndrome", though. In my final year of uni I went for an interview at the National Physical Laboratory, where I explained lift in terms of the Bernoulli effect (without even naming it). D'oh! No wonder I got a third.
In my defence, such as it is, I would say that we didn't do much fluid mechanics at all, if I remember correctly.
And by the way, shouldn't Alice and Bob be trying to pass each other secret messages? :-)))
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:37 (UTC)You have caused me something that I dub "retrospective embarrassment/shame memory syndrome", though. In my final year of uni I went for an interview at the National Physical Laboratory, where I explained lift in terms of the Bernoulli effect (without even naming it). D'oh! No wonder I got a third.
In my defence, such as it is, I would say that we didn't do much fluid mechanics at all, if I remember correctly.
And by the way, shouldn't Alice and Bob be trying to pass each other secret messages? :-)))