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Nov 1998

Volume 36, Issue 8, pp. 452-512

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Slow balloon race

Karen Bouffard

The Physics Teacher -- November 1998 -- Volume 36, Issue 8, pp. 482

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This is the first of a proposed series of columns presenting Physics Olympics “challenges,” activities that can be adapted as classroom laboratory experiments. The slow balloon race is based on Archimedes’ principle.
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47.20.Bp Buoyancy-driven instabilities (e.g., Rayleigh-Benard)
01.50.Pa Laboratory experiments and apparatus
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