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Similitude (model) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can get a dime to float in a glass of water, but a manhole cover the shape of a dime can not be made to float. Surface forces do not scale the way you might think.

If you test a scale model in a wind tunnel without achieving similitude, you will get different results.
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