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Airfoil Experiments - Level 1

EXPERIMENT 2

Equipment:

• 2 sheets of notebook paper

Hold two sheets of notebook paper about four inches apart. Blow between them. Instead of flying apart they come together. The air moving rapidly between the two pieces of paper has less pressure than the air pressing on the outer sides of the paper.

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Updated: March 12, 2004