Under what circumstances could you levitate a bit of paper or a crumb and raise it to be almost stable above the surface? Small pieces of cookie crumbs could float above the surface until the comb moved. There was no stable example. The materials either rested on the surface or they flew up and accelerated. Everything I tried floated and did not reach the comb, but would rise above the surface. Larger pieces of paper could
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
Under what circumstances could you levitate a bit of paper or a crumb and raise it to be almost stable above the surface?
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Small pieces of cookie crumbs could float above the surface until the comb moved. |
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There was no stable example. The materials either rested on the surface or they flew up and accelerated. |
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Everything I tried floated and did not reach the comb, but would rise above the surface. |
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Larger pieces of paper could float above the surface. |
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