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- Statement that the speed of a fluid varies
- inversely with the pressure, an increase in
- speed producing a decrease in pressure
- (such as a drop in hydraulic pressure as
- the fluid speeds up flowing through a
- constriction in a pipe) and vice versa.
- The principle also explains the pressure
- differences on each surface of an
- aerofoil, which gives lift to the wing of an
- aircraft. The principle was named after the
- Swiss physicist Daniel Bernoulli.
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