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    Under Pressure, Part 2

    Our adventures with pressure continue after the trip to the aquarium. To see just how much pressure we could generate with height, A.J. and I teamed up with the Corvallis Fire Department to recreate an experiment attributed to 17th-century French physicist Blaise Pascal. In Pascal’s experiment, he (supposedly) used a column of water to burst a wooden barrel. In ours, we use a ladder truck to make a 30-meter column of water burst a glass carboy! We also got a little help from our friends at the Lutetium Project to introduce you to Pascal and his work. (Thanks, Guillaume!) We’ll tell you more about Pascal and his contributions in an upcoming video, so stay tuned. (Video and image credit: A. Fillo and N. Sharp)

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    Under Pressure

    Pressure is a concept that can be unintuitive, but it’s incredibly important in physics and engineering. So I’m excited to debut a collaborative video series that @mostlyenginerd and I are producing all about hydrostatic pressure! Today’s video is one of our openers: it focuses on where pressure comes from and why it’s a function of height but not volume. And to show you just how pressure increases with depth, we teamed up with divers from the Oregon State University Scientific Diving Team and headed to the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Halibut Flats exhibit. Ever seen what a balloon looks like 7 meters underwater? You’re about to! (Video and image credit: N. Sharp and A. Fillo)

    Want to see how this was made? Support FYFD on Patreon, and you can get access to behind-the-scenes content and a chance to see upcoming videos early!

  • Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics: Introduction

    Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics: Introduction

    For the next week on FYFD, I’ll be doing something a little different. I’ve teamed up with FYP to produce a joint series of posts on pilot-wave hydrodynamics, a recent area of investigation on fluid systems that display quantum mechanical behaviors. We’ve touched on some aspects of this previously, but this series will get into more details, building from nineteenth century explorations of vibration all the way to current research. Each weekday FYP and FYFD will each feature a new post in the series, so you can look forward to ten entries total next week. I’ll start each FYFD entry with a recap of links to previous posts so you can be sure you haven’t missed any.

    To give you a taste of what’s to come, check out Nigel Stanford’s awesome “Cymatics” music video below. On Monday, we’ll start our exploration of pilot-wave hydrodynamics by examining some of the phenomena featured in the video. (Image credit: D. Harris, original; video credit: N. Stanford)