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Direct linkHeavers, Richard M.; Dapp, Rachel M. – Physics Teacher, 2010
Consider a transparent, cylindrical container filled with water and sitting in the center of a record player turntable. When the turntable is started suddenly, the container rotates with the turntable, but the bulk of the fluid initially remains at rest. A thin ([approximately]1 mm) viscous boundary layer (Ekman layer) forms almost immediately at…
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