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Visualizing Bernoulli’s Principle March 26, 2013

© 2013 by James Wilson

While it’s conceptually inaccurate, Bernoulli’s Priniciple can be compared to an interstate highway. If the cars slow down due to traffic, they gather closer together and add more weight to the underlying roadway. The falsehood in this concept lies in the fact that the number of gas molecules don’t increase, only the number of transverse and counter-directional collisions.

© 2013 by James Wilson

Imagining the air in a room as bumper car rink, with the individual molecules of air as cars, we can see that the pressure will decrease in the lateral and obverse directions if all the cars are directed towards the same wall. The wall that the cars strike will experience an increase in pressure.