Physics+of+flight

=**The Physics Of Flight** =

Flight is made possible by the Bernoulli's principle. Lift is created by an air foil or the wing by creating a low pressure area above the wing which moves with a higher velocity then the high pressure that move with less velocity under the wing.

This is the equation to find the amount of lift that a force creates.

media type="file" key="Movie 3.mov" In the video, the pressure above the paper is being changed. This is caused due to Zane blowing across the top of the paper. This simple air movement is decreasing the pressure across the top of the paper. With that, the remaining pressure below the paper is now stronger than the pressure on top of the paper. This causes the paper to float up, or level out. This simple video is the basic understanding of how the wing of an airplane works. As shown by the diagram above the video, there is low pressure above the wing, and high pressure below the wing (Just like the paper in the video). This is the basics of how a wing of a plane keeps the aircraft in flight.

media type="file" key="Lift.wmv" In this video you can see the ideas explained and displayed above being demonstrated in what they are used for. The wing of the matchbox plane is actually shaped very similar to the picture above, and is more than enough to give the plane lift and allow it to rise from the ground.

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