12: Resistive Forces

Topics covered: This lecture covers resistive forces such as air drag. It includes the viscous (linear in velocity) and pressure (quadratic in velocity) terms. Quantitative demonstrations with balloons and with ball bearings dropped in syrup are shown.

Instructor/speaker: Prof. Walter Lewin

Date recorded: October 6, 1999

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Walter Lewin and MIT OpenCourseWare

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OpenCourseWare