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Article: Engineer finds a twist in shower-curtain debate
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- July 29, 2001
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Engineer finds a twist in shower-curtain debate
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
New York Times
Sunday, July 29, 2001
Like millions of people, David Schmidt takes a shower every
morning. For the last few years, between first spritz and final
drain, a question has vexed him: Why does the shower curtain suck in?
Today, thanks to $28,000 worth of high-powered computer software,
a PhD in engineering and too much free time, Schmidt, 31, a
mechanical engineering professor at the University of Massachusetts,
believes he has an answer. It has to do with why airplanes fly,
hurricanes twist and apples fall.
True, the mystery of the sucking shower curtain does not rank high
on the ladder of mankind's challenges, and ...