Why does a leaf fly upwards when you blow on it?

Hello!

I did an experiment in science class today where we held a piece of paper in our hands and blew on it from the front. Unfortunately, I didn't understand it at all… 🙁

Our teacher showed us the picture below.

Can you help me? It would be soooo important!

Thank you and see you soon!

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Maxi170703
1 year ago

The total pressure consisting of dynamic and static pressure remains constant. When the fluid flows faster, the static pressure drops. When it flows more slowly, the static pressure rises. The pressure is therefore greater below the sheet and the sheet rises or floats

Doktorelektrik
1 year ago

This is a good attempt to aerodynamics to illustrate the uplift on aircraft wings.

The effective negative pressure on the upper side of a supporting surface contributes most strongly to the lift, whereas the lower dynamic pressure is far lower.

Planes “hang” in the air. Therefore, it is also fatal if trim parts are released on the upper side of the support surface.

There is also one great counter-test:

Wool a sheet of thick paper or cardboard, and place it on the table as a cardboard tunnel. Then blow into the cavity under the leaf and try to release it from the table top. The opposite happens: the sheet “sucks” firmly.

HansWurst45
1 year ago

I have a physically not entirely correct explanation for you, but it is very clear and at least not quite wrong.

  • When you blow over the leaf, the air moves quickly over the leaf.
  • The air which is directly (some fractions of a millimeter) above the paper is still, because the paper is also still
  • Now the rapidly moving air tears a little from the still air with continued
  • As a result, just above the sheet is somewhat less air (the physicist says the pressure is lower)
  • But this does not happen under the leaf because it is not cleaned (or less strongly because the air flows more slowly than above)
  • Because now directly above the sheet is less air (the pressure is smaller) than under the sheet (the pressure normal or just a little smaller) the air presses the same up directly under the sheet

That’s grossly wrong now, but maybe there’s an idea why it works.

p.s. To all those who know the physically correct words and can count on the equations of Bernoulli, it will be for you if you can not call a trivial statement suitable for the physically unrelated reader, because that does not help the questioner at all.

Littlethought
1 year ago

A more detailed explanation can be found under

https://www.leifiphysik.de/mechanik Flow gauge

or in my concept Stömungslehre under dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x56zbd1s9h9s199/AABjiFed1d8Ixj12qLCcc0q4a/Physik_Concepts_u_Versuche/Ph_KONZEPTE__pdf-files?dl=0&subfolder_nav_tracking=1 in the file flow theory