The Shower Curtain Effect | Showering Enthusiast

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Nerve Endings Firing Away:

Ever wonder why the shower curtain moves inward when you are in the shower when it should be the other way around? It may seem like a frivolous question but digging around for the answers led Dr. David Schmidt of University of Massachusetts to a 2001 Ig Nobel Prize (doesn’t help the frivolous accusation though). The answers are quite interesting although the causes are inconclusive yet. One of the primary explanations center on Bernoulli Effect Theory… read on.