lift: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	aerodynamic lift

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fluid flow Geostrophic motion laminar flow Navier-Stokes equation Stokes’s law Bernoulli’s theorem Torricelli’s law Reynolds number turbulent flow Froude number drag

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Samuel Pierpont Langley

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