Recently, I wrote about how it's possible to explain the lift from an airplane wing without mentioning Bernoulli's principle, which … well … ruffled a few ...

Introduction Have you ever seen pictures or videos of a roof being blown off a house during a hurricane or tornado? You might be surprised to hear that the roof is actually not blown off by the strong ...

If a bird is in a tree and decides to go explore somewhere else, it takes off and elegantly flies away. However, if we did the same thing we wouldn’t fly. We would fall straight to the ground! Birds ...

The air that is all around us is actually exerting a force on us due to the weight of the air above us. This is known as atmospheric pressure, which is about 14.7 lbs per square inch. Almost 300 years ...

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