Testing a 150-year-old Hydrodynamics Prediction
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A new experiment finds that a sphere with “fins” maintains its orientation in flowing fluid, despite 19th century prediction it would spin.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2624-8174']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.14.s89