Physics I

Week 5 “Bernoulli’s Principle”

Each week, you will reply to two discussion forum questions. You may submit your answers together or separately – just be sure you address both questions. Here are your questions for this week:

Part 1

Roofs of houses are sometimes “blown off” during a tornado or hurricanes. Explain this using Bernoulli’s principle.

Part 2

Why can one say that airplane wings and race car spoilers are inverses of each other? What is the use for each of them and how do each work here?