Drones
What happens when a drone’s propellers spin faster?
It goes up
What force keeps a drone in the air?
Lift
The step-by-step instructions that a computer executes in order for a project to run.
When was the first test of the Kittyhawk?
December 14th 1903
Lift increases
Type of drone known for being more efficient though it is more expensive and dangerous
Single Rotor
The 2D surface that lift acts upon
Airfoil
Known for being more reliable and capable of acknowledgement, retransmission, and timeouts. An alternate to UDP.
TCP
He completed the first flight between two major U.S. cities (New York and Albany) in 4 hours with only 2 stops for refuel.
Glenn H. Curtiss
Which law of motion explains why a drone moves upward when its propellers push air downward?
Newton's 3rd Law - every force has an equal force that acts in the opposing direction.
Name all the forces that act upon a drone during flight
Lift, Gravity, Drag
The 3 primary axis for flight
Roll, Pitch, Yaw
When we write out what our code / algorithm should do, in our spoken language, not the programming language.
Pseudocode
When and for what purpose was the first fighter aircraft designed?
1915 World War I
What is drag dependent on Earth with a plane?
Surface Area and Velocity
Describe the transition in energy type as the motor powers the rotor on a drone?
Within the motor, the electrical energy turns into mechanical, kinetic energy as the power shaft spins the rotor.
The component of the aircraft that controls direction
The rudder
The actions performed or to be performed by a robot or expected result from your code.
Behavior
How long and how high did the Kittyhawk fly on its first attempt?
3.5 secs and 105ft
Drag, Lift, Gravity, "Centripetal"
If I wanted to fly a drone on Mars, what attributes would I need to have on my drone and why?
My rotor must spin faster (approx. 10x) than the usual speed of the rotor on Earth due to thin atmosphere, lower but not compensating gravity.
I'm on an airplane and the pilot has just fainted. If I want to land this plane, what part of the plane must I adjust and how must I adjust it?
Tilt the elevator tail downward
A set of premade functions and programs that can be imported into a project to use freely
A library
Using the first step in the engineering process what did the Wright Brothers do to learn more about flight, and what was the name of the step they employed?
Birds; Step 1: Ask
In what direction does friction point in the case of a rolling block vs. the direction it points on a sliding block?
Rolling: in the direction the block goes
Sliding: opposite to the blocks direction