Let a faucet pour onto an egg sinking in a glass of water. For flow rates above some critical value, the egg will rise as if it were attracted to the falling water. Apparently nothing more than a description has been published on this demonstration. In this paper, this phenomenon was observed and the critical flow rate for an egg, a golf ball and a sphere were measured. The dominating factors on the critical flow rate for the bodies are the reference diameter, value and specific gravity of the egg,
d,
V and σ, the diameter and depth of the vessel,
D and
H, the density and kinematic viscosity of fluid, ρ and
ν, and the acceleration of gravity,
g. From the vector dimensional analysis, the critical flow rate is given by
qc/dν=C(
D/d)
k (
H/d)
m [(σ-1)
Vg/ν2]
n, for an egg, a golf ball and a Sphere. The constant C and the exponents k, m and n were obtained experimentally.
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