lawn sprinkler
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The Feynman sprinkler problem is typically framed as a thought experiment about a type of lawn sprinkler that spins when fluid, such as water, is expelled out of its S-shaped tubes or "arms."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
As the stars orbit and their expanding winds sweep outward, the dust spirals out like the jet from a lawn sprinkler.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
As his lawn sprinkler ran one summer day in 2019, “I heard this spitting and sputtering … like when you go down to the bottom of a glass with a straw,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
It was worth it to meet Joanne Rogers, Mr. Rogers’s widow, who is a veritable lawn sprinkler of niceness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2019
"Your Uncle Ike often dies, but he never surrenders," and he cocked the nozzle of the lawn sprinkler, and stood ready for the attack.
From Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
