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How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift 
  
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D. Anderson and S. Eberhardt; Publisher: Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology, and Research
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This article by a physicist and an aeronautical engineer explains the physics of how aircraft wings produce lift. It shows how several popular explanations are clearly wrong, and…
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http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/airflylvl3.htm
Physlet Physics - Fluids 
  
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W. Christian and M. Belloni
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The Physlet Physics Section 2: Fluids provides a technology-enhanced introduction to topics regarding fluids in introductory physics classes. Interactive javascript simulations are…
https://www.compadre.org/Physlets/fluids/
Airplane Flight 
  
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D. Stern
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This web site contains an elementary discussion of the physics of airplane flight. Concepts of frames of reference and vectors are used to explore lift, drag, and thrust for wings…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sflight.htm
Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement 
  
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A. Einstein; Publisher: Dover Publications
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This is the 1905 paper by Albert Einstein on Brownian Motion.
https://psrc.aapt.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=2146&DocID=5
Shock Waves 
  
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This web page explains the physics of sonic shock waves. Text and animations describe and illustrate the wavefronts of sound from a moving point source for the cases of motion equal…
http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/swa_txt.htm
Flow Visualization 
  
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J. Hertzberg; Publisher: Deparment of Mechanical Engineering
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This web site for a class on flow visualization showcases the work of engineering and fine arts students. Eleven galleries present student images showing fluids and clouds, with…
https://www.flowvis.org/
Physics in Action: Sonic Shock 
  
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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This Physics Central feature describes shock waves and explains their shape and physics. Images of shock waves of various objects in air show how a "blunt body" minimizes heating on…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/shockwaves.cfm
Schlieren Photography Principles 
  
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A. Davidhazy
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This web site provides a discussion of methods used in schlieren photography, a technique to image variations in density of a transparent fluid. The site contains an explanation of…
https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-schlieren.html
Physics in Action: Fluids in Space 
  
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Physics Central; Publisher: American Physical Society
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This site describes weightlessness and what causes astronauts to "float" while they are in orbit. The article also covers what happens to various liquids in space as they are heated…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/fluids.cfm
Physics in Action: Ferrofluid Fun 
  
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This article describes ferrofluids, which are man-made liquid magnets. The site tells how these liquid magnets are made, what their current uses are, as well as possible future…
http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/action/ferrofluids.cfm
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