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Life at low Reynolds number
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Low Reynolds NumberEngineeringOverhead ProjectorFluid MechanicsNumerical SimulationTurbulenceTurbulence ModelingCorn SyrupScience And Technology StudiesCommunicationTechnologyBook PhysicsHydrodynamic Stability
The paper is a reprint of a 1976 talk, preserving its personal tone from the original transcript. The demonstration used a tall rectangular vessel of corn syrup viewed from the side by an overhead projector. Figures replicate the talk’s transparencies, but some essential hand‑waving could not be reproduced.
E d i t o r’s note: This is a reprint (slightly edited) of a paper of the same title that appeared in the book Physics and Our World: A Symposium in Honor of Victor F. Weisskopf, published by the American Institute of Physics (1976). The personal tone of the original talk has been preserved in the paper, which was itself a slightly edited transcript of a tape. The figures reproduce transparencies used in the talk. The demonstration involved a tall rectangular transparent vessel of corn syrup, projected by an overhead projector turned on its side. Some essential hand waving could not be reproduced.