{"id":6159,"date":"2018-06-01T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:38","slug":"air-flow-levitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2018\/06\/air-flow-levitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-flow levitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5638\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5638\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bernoulli's Principle levitation 1\" width=\"358\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161058-351x624.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5640 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bernoulli's Principle suction 1\" width=\"456\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103a-351x624.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5639 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Bernoulli's Principle suction 2\" width=\"511\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103-772x434.jpg 772w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/0329161103.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air-flow around ball causes nonintuitive levitation and stability.<\/li>\n<li>A nozzle connected to the air-blower creates a narrow stream of fast moving air.<\/li>\n<li>Ball can be levitated directly above air nozzle, or at an angle.<\/li>\n<li>When funnel\u00a0is connected to air hose,\u00a0air flow around ball creates lift, preventing ball from falling, even when air flow is directed downwards.<\/li>\n<li>Blower, nozzle and funnel located in L35. Ball in L02 section A2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air-flow around ball causes nonintuitive levitation and stability. A nozzle connected to the air-blower creates a narrow stream of fast moving air. Ball can be levitated directly above air nozzle, or at an angle. When funnel\u00a0is connected to air hose,\u00a0air flow around ball creates lift, preventing ball from falling, even when air flow is directed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2018\/06\/air-flow-levitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air-flow levitation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,6],"tags":[631,97,582,672,671,673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}