Lec 28: Hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, Fluid Dynamics | 8.01 Classical Mechanics (Lewin) @ForTheAllureOfPhysics

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Concepts covered in this lecture include Hydrostatics, Archimedes' Principle, Fluid Dynamics, What makes your Boat Float?, and Bernoulli's Equation.

This lecture is part of 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, as taught in Fall 1999 by Dr. Walter Lewin at MIT.

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