Image caption, You can see that the coins in this formation make a parabola (a u-shaped symmetrical curve). You can see this clearly if you line the coins up with a piece of card and draw a curve ...

points 1 and 2 lie on a streamline, the fluid has constant density, the flow is steady, and there is no friction. Although these restrictions sound severe, the Bernoulli equation is very useful, ...

It’s worth noting at this point that this method is intended for continuous data. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. To calculate b, and make sense of that creepy equation, we’re going to need to ...