Last week I talked about the front splitter and its effect. The splitter is much more inconspicuous than what is on the plate for today: the rear wing. The rear wing does exactly what a wing on an airplane would do, just upside down. In 1738, a plucky young Dutch/Swiss mathematician published a book the explained the fundamental principle of speed to pressure ratios. Daniel Bernoulli observed that when water in pipes with a large diameter transitioned to pipes with a smaller diameter, the pressure would increase in the smaller pipe. Many years later, Bernoulli’s principle was applied to the airfoil; stating that when air flowed over a wing shape a pressure differential was created causing lift. (continue reading…)