PWS LES AERODYNAMICA

• Natuurkunde
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

PWS LES AERODYNAMICA

By: 

Boaz Vinckers

Lucas Boender

Robin Winter

5Hb and 5Hc

Lesson Objective 

For the students to know the basics

of aerodynamics and airplanes

Why did we choose this subject.

Interested 

Future Job/work

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What do you think that makes airplanes fly?

1. lift, gravity, thrust and drag
2. The wheels
3. Rockets powered by Cola and Mentos
4. Clouds which pulls the airplane like a magnet

00:29

Who were the people that made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered plane?

1. Albert Einstein
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Isaac Newton
4. The Wright Brothers

02:12

What are the names of the front and back edges of the airfoil?

04:37

What part of the airfoil crates the most amount of lift?

06:05

Does the air on the bottom surface travel faster then the air on the top surface?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe
4. Sometimes

08:27

Which streams does the airfoil have? And what are the names for that?

09:55

Which mutual interactions are there?

What have you learned about aerodynamics?

word search

Key Terms

Lift	Aspect Ratio	Stall	Equations
Drag	Angle of Attack	Gravity	Turbulence
Weight	Airpressure	Physics	Upwash
Thrust	Wingspan	Wingprofile	Downwash
Wings	Streamlined	Airfoil	Mutual interactions
Airplane	Induced drag	Wingflap	Reynolds Number

The End