Physics 212 Lecture: "Bernoulli's Equation".

• Bernoulli's equation describes the conservation of a quantity I call "fluid energy per unit volume"
• One new concept is "fluid pressure potential energy", which is simply related to a pressure difference
• Using Bernoulli's equation, you can predict the properties of a steadily flowing fluid at one point, given some information about the fluid elsewhere

This lecture discusses material in Chapter 13 of Knight, Jones and Field.

In class today (Tues, Dec 4, 2012), when I introduced a sample problem from the activity manual, I got it all mixed up. My big problem was reading the words and drawing the wrong picture.

• Read what I did wrong, and how I should have solved the problem (PDF)

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Blood inside the body is pushed through arteries at high pressure. What happens when an artery is cut?

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