“Let me see what you have there.” My fingers brush hers as I take the text, quickly scanning the pages to see what she’s working on. “Alright, give me the basic equation for Bernoulli’s Principle.”
She pauses, then, “Pee-one plus…. half rho, vee-one squared….” She falters, pressing fingers to her temple. “Don’t tell me.”
“You’re trying to do it the hard way, I think.”
Her eyes settle on me. “There’s an easy way?”
“You’re trying to simply remember by rote. Instead, think about what the components of the equation mean.” Her brow furrows. “Instead of parroting it at me, tell me what the individual parts are.”
“Um, static pressure of the fluid plus kinetic energy plus potential energy.”
“Exactly. Now think about that and how each part of the equation is constructed.”
“Um…. Static pressu
