CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Pressure in Fluids
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Why fluids exert pressure and how it relates to force and area. How to calculate pressure or force and factors that affect fluid pressure.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Oceanic Pressure
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Oceanic pressure and how it changes with depth, and how to adjust to this change.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Landing Location of Fluid
Determine the landing location of a stream of water that comes out of a tank that has a hole punched in the side.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Landing Location of Fluid Different Pressures
In this problem you will have a tank of fluid get punctured and you will need to find the landing location of the fluid. The tank in which the fluid is housed is pressurized above the value of the atmospheric pressure.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Flow Rate Problem
Students must determine the flow rate and speed of the water leaving a faucet based on the time it takes to fill a beaker to a certain height and the radius of the faucet the water is exiting from.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Flow Rate From Beverage Dispenser Problem
Students determine the flow rate and speed of the water leaving a faucet based on the properties of the beverage dispenser that it is coming from.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Continuity of Flow Problem
In this problem, water is flowing through two sections of piping with different diameter pipes joined by a coupler. Given the speed of the water in the first section of piping, find the speed in the second section.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Reynolds Number and Its Applications
Describes an experiment in turbulent and laminar flow in order to illustrate these concepts in fluid mechanics and how this applies to the Reynolds Number. Gives several examples of applications of the Reynolds Number.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Fluids in U Tube Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the equilibrium location of a piston that is separating two fluids in a u-tube.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Flow Rate Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to discover the formula that links flow rate to velocity from a faucet and the radius of the faucet.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Flow Rate From Beverage Dispenser Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to discover the formula that links flow rate to properties of the faucet, fluid, planet and height.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Siphon Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to look at how some different factors affect the flow rate and exit velocity for water leaving a siphon.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fluid Dynamics and Its Biological & Medical Applications:glossary
This is a glossary of terms and definitions used in Chapter 12: Fluid Dynamics and Its Biological & Medical Applications from the AP Physics online text.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Volume Flow Rate?
This page contains information about analyzing the motion of a fluid using volume flow rate equation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Bernoulli's Equation?
A webpage dedicated to explaining how to analyze fluid flow using the Bernoulli's equation. Understand how thishhhhh equation will give you the powers to analyze a fluid flowing up and down through all kinds of different tubes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Tubular System in an Aquarium
This passage will test your knowledge on fluids in motion.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Fluid Flow Continuity
Students explore fluid flow continuity with this exam question. The question includes a detailed solution.
MadSci Network
Mad Scientist Network: How the Venturi Effect Relates to Architectural Design
A question and answer regarding wind velocity and its effects on architectural design. A good site for applying the concept of the Venturi Effect.
University of Hawai'i
The Hawai`i Space Grant Consortium: Viscosity Lab
This is a high school level laboratory exercise demonstrating the properties of viscosity. Standard classroom science are required to do this lab.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Simulated Waves After Dam Destruction
View a simulation of the movement of water after a dam is destroyed.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Rotating Drum Mixer
Adjust the rotation in this simulation to see how particles of fluids move.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Flow in a Box at Your Finger Tip
Adjust variables to see how particles that are affected by gravity flow through a closed system.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Balancing Ball: Suspend a Ball in a Stream of Air
In this lesson plan students learn about air flow using a suspended ball in an air stream.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Faucet Flow Rate
This activity allows students to determine the flow rate of a faucet in gallons per second (gaps) as well as cubic feet per second (cuffs) at three different levels (quarter blast, half blast, and full blast). By recording how long it...