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Old 10-14-2010 | 02:21 PM
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Default RE: lift

Newton and Bernoulli do not contradict each other. Newton's laws and on Bernoulli's theorem are completely compatible. For the most part they're just two different ways of simplifying a single complicated subject.

Bernoullis theorem does not try to explain lift, instead it simply states that in the absence of friction and compressibility, the total energy of the fluid is a conserved quantity, nothing more, nothing less.