Fluid dynamics

[muckypup]

I saw this highly educational video on fluid dynamics today and thought people here might like it too.

[brick]

Thank you very much for posting this very scientific video for all of us to learn from. I would now like to see the same experiment carried out with a non-Newtonian substance (I propose custard).

[Richard]

Why weren't my classes in advanced physics like that? I might even have passed the exam!

[Whitestar]

Water, Water everywhere and not a drop to drink!

Wat(er) load of education! I had to dive in and watch it twice to understand it fully, but I guess that's my thirst for education. I bet the clip gets a flood of views.

[Squelch]

Fascinating Open University will never look the same again

[MrB]

Thank you very much for posting this very scientific video for all of us to learn from. I would now like to see the same experiment carried out with a non-Newtonian substance (I propose custard).

Bad choice... Custard is a dilatant fluid, i.e. thickens with stress, so might simply bounce off. What is required here is the opposite of custard, a substance with shear thinning properties.

That's right, what we need here is Ketchup.



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Geek note: I remembered that ketchup is the physics opposite of custard, but in looking up the terms I was impressed by the smorgasbord of wam substances that are non newtonian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluid

It even has a link to quicksand.

Only I can make my fetish geeky.