'Silly sprinklers' put in reverse to further unravel decades-old physics puzzle

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways ...

Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem

For more than a century, physicists have argued about which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...
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Mathematicians use children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve decades-old physics mystery

A team of mathematicians from New York University and the Colorado School of Mines ...