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What happens when you hold a spoon in a stream of water?

Physics Asked by Sofia Oliveira on July 5, 2021

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I hope this picture helps out on understanding the system. Here is the exercise:

Hold a spoon next to a water stream from the faucet. Observe the spoon getting attracted to the stream of water. Explain why does this happen?

According to the Bernoulli principle the pressure will decrease on the bottom of the spoon because the velocity is bigger and the height of water column is smaller on that point. But I don’t understand why that attracts the spoon to the jet of water.

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Objects gravitate to low pressure environments. Think of a straw while sipping on a drink... You are sucking the air and the drink fills the low pressure environment (straw) that you created. In this case, the spoon gravitated towards the low pressure but high velocity water stream.

Answered by C.Carter on July 5, 2021

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