Mirjam Sophia Glessmer

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Pressure distribution on a wing

July 27, 2015
Another neat experiment in the collection I’ve recently been talking about is measuring pressure at different points on a wing profile. It’s not terribly surprising that – as long as…
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Playing with Venturi tubes II

July 22, 2015
On Monday I posted about playing with Venturi tubes. Guess what: We are going to play more today! Because today the Venturi tubes are connected to a “proper” manometer: Now,…
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Playing with Venturi tubes

July 20, 2015
A Venturi tube is one of the things one hears about in hydrodynamics class all the time, but one never gets to see them for real. And even though I…
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Letter tubes and hydrostatic pressure

February 5, 2014
How less than 25% of the tested students give consistent answers to these problems. This is already the third blog post talking about the paper “Identifying and addressing student difficulties…
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Barometer problem.

January 31, 2014
Still talking about hydrostatic pressure. Yes, I am not done with hydrostatic pressure yet! One of the problems students were given in the study “Identifying and addressing student difficulties with…
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Hydrostatic pressure

January 29, 2014
What are students not understanding about hydrostatic pressure? Tomorrow (today by the time this post will go online, I guess) I will present the paper “Identifying and addressing student difficulties…
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Cartesian diver

January 20, 2014
Compressibility of water and air. Today I want to talk about the different compressibilities of water and air. Actually, no, I just want to show you an experiment. One way…
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