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    Can't wrap my head around buffers

    Let's keep things simple. I have pure water. pH = 7. I want to add a buffer. I add the weak acid. It dissociates little. So the pH is still close to neutral. So far so good. The problem is, we are also adding conjugate base (the conjugate base is strong). Why doesn't the added base consume the...
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    Why is the balloon sticking to the wall?

    I wonder why they can't explain it like this in textbooks. They just expect you to take it at face value. Even the high school teacher doesn't seem to know this explanation. He just knows that it's "induction". And then they expect you to solve problems, when they did 0 teaching.
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    Why is the balloon sticking to the wall?

    When you negatively charge a balloon, by rubbing it on clothes, and then placing it against the wall, why doesn't the electrons move to the wall, causing the balloon to drop? I would have thought the electron transfers to the wall - therefore an example of conduction. Why is it induction and...
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    How does estradiol level rise pre-LH surge?

    In the follicular phase, once the estradiol level reaches a certain threshold, it causes a switch from negative feedback to positive feedback on LH & FSH. That is why we have a surge near the end of the follicular phase. My question is, what makes estradiol rise and reach that threshold to...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    Not about momentum. But about the description of the two plates. Here is what you said: "To get an idea of viscous friction, think extreme cases like very viscous fluids like molasses, pancake syrup, and corn syrup. Imagine that you have the fluid contained between two horizontal parallel...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    This is not a free body diagram. But it gets the point across: As you can see, force is lessened at point 2.
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    Yes. As it applies to this problem, the force pushing the fluid against friction (pushing the fluid from left to right) is getting reduced (I am assuming because of the friction it has incurred to get from the beginning of the journey to the middle of the journey, if for example we look at...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    To say that momentum is transported sideways is to imply that the force is acting at the center of the fluid, and the radial fluid is carried along by shear stress (thus momentum). When I asked before if the force is acting on the middle, I was told no, it acts against the cross sectional area...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    I mean, that's what your description was, lol
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    It seems to me that you are viewing force as some kind of momentum, reducing as it encounters friction along its journey. Like this?
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    That makes sense. Someone else in this thread also told me something like this actually, which I forgot about. This is the best example so far. So the middle of the book has half the pressure? I think I understand - so the fluids pressure stays proportional to how much fluid it has in front of...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    I can. But that doesn't mean I can relate it to pressure drop. And also: Why can't a constant pressure drive the fluid through the pipe? Why does it have to decrease for there to exist a flow. When I drag a book across the floor at constant speed, I do so with constant pressure. Why must there...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    What exactly does pressure loss due to friction mean? How do you even visualize that?
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    I meant more in the sense of if a scientist was investigating and wanted to know why the pressure at point C is less than point A, when discovering it or the first time in human history. Saying that "because otherwise flow wouldn't occur" doesn't explain why there is a difference, just that it...
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    How does the pressure drop as a fluid flows through a pipe

    Makes sense. How it comes about/gets established doesn't.
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