Torricelli's law
Teorema de Torricelli
- Date
- 1643 · confidence high
- Place
- Florence, Italy
- Credited to
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Torricelli showed that the exit speed of a liquid through a hole at height h equals the speed a body would gain in free fall from that height (v=√(2gh)). It was later recognized as a special case of Bernoulli's principle.
What it led to
- Design of water clocks (clepsydras)
- Study of fluid jet trajectories
- Precursor to Bernoulli's principle