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Old 08-14-2014, 11:11 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Actually,air is considered an incompressible fluid until transonic velocities are achieved,typically 250-mph for cars.
Up to that speed,air is just like water.
If you take an open,full bottle of beer, and submerge it in a fast moving stream,with the neck of the bottle normal to the flow,the beer will just stay in the bottle,with the water skimming over the opening.You might get some resonance (Helmholtz),but that's it.
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You just made me waste a beer :-/








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