How to reduce drag (TEFC)

United States, 1960

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Episode number 4 of Series “Fluid Dynamics of Drag”.
Professor Ascher M. Shapiro indicates the effect of body shape on drag; streamlining at high Reynolds Number; Bernoulli’s principle; boundary - layer stall; effect of turbulence on stall; effect of roughness; streamlining at low Reynolds Number; resolution of the paradoxes of Part I.

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director

Quentin Brown

producer

Kevin Smith

production company

Education Services

Duration

00:28:37:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1960

Appears in

Fluid Dynamics of Drag

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Fluid Dynamics of Drag

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

003848

Language

English

Subject categories

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Aerodynamics

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Educational films

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Fluid dynamics

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Physics

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Short films → Short films - United States

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Sound

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16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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