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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:41:16 EST
- From: <NAYLORD@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92325.134117NAYLORD@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: rec.juggling
- Subject: Re: Challenge to Everyone (physics)
- Distribution: world
- References: <1egrctINNlh2@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- jboyce@physics.berkeley.edu writes:
-
- > 1. Juggling underwater (constant bouyancy force). Adjust the
- > ball density to achieve different effective gravities. The
- > problem here is comfort, as well as drag due to viscosity
- > (which needs to be substantially less than the force of gravity)
- >
- > 2. Juggling lighter-than-air balls. Viscous drag kills this.
-
- Some interesting ideas Jack. I have one minor correction to
- the above comments. I know I'm being picky here but what the
- heck, if we're going to talk physics... The reason the above
- ideas fail is not because of viscous drag. Viscosity plays a
- very minor role in drag over non-slender (bluff)
- bodies, except at extremely
- low fluid velocities (so-called Stoke's flow). PRESSURE drag
- resulting from the separated flow and turbulent wake is the
- source of the problem - and pressure drag is proportional to the
- DENSITY of the fluid. If only juggling props were more aerodymanic!
-
- I wish I had something to add rather than just pick at
- someone else's posting, but I don't.
-
- David Naylor, Queen's Juggler
- Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- naylord@qucdn.queensu.ca
-