Holger Babinsky 2003 Phys. Educ. 38 497 doi:10.1088/0031-9120/38/6/001
Holger Babinsky
Show affiliationsThe popular explanation of lift is common, quick, sounds logical and gives the correct answer, yet also introduces misconceptions, uses a nonsensical physical argument and misleadingly invokes Bernoulli's equation. A simple analysis of pressure gradients and the curvature of streamlines is presented here to give a more correct explanation of lift.
Issue 6 ( 1 November 2003)
Received 9 September 2003
Holger Babinsky 2003 Phys. Educ. 38 497