Math
Mechanical Advantage
Vectoring
Physics
Potpourri
100
The system using only 1's and 0's.
What is the Binary System?
100
A Wheel Barrow.
What is a second class lever?
100
The type of math used in calculating vectoring.
What is Trigonometry?
100
Energy stored in Fuel, a battery or a compressed spring.
What is Potential Energy?
100
Bernoulli's Principal states this is traded for speed.
What is pressure?
200
1/2 Base times Height.
What is the Area of a Triangle?
200
Archimedes said give me one of these and a fulcrum to place it on and I shall move the world!
What is a Lever?
200
While speed is a rate of motion, this is a rate of motion in a specific direction.
What is velocity?
200
Where most of the energy we use on the earth comes from.
What is the Sun?
200
Of the four forces of flight, this directly opposes thrust.
What is Drag?
300
This can be found by multiplying all the denominators together.
What is a common denominator?
300
Force x Distance
What is Work?
300
To increase speed or make an object move faster.
What is acceleration?
300
The ratio of the density of a material to that of pure water.
What is Specific Gravity?
300
The wingspan compared to the wings chord is call this.
What is the aspect ratio?
400
3.14 x R2
What is the Area of a Circle
400
33,000 Ft.Lbs/Hr., or 550 per Second.
What is 1 Horsepower?
400
A single vector which is the sum of two or more vectors?
What is the Resultant?
400
Anything that takes up space and has weight.
What is Matter?
400
Aviation will utilize his three laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
The system that uses numbers 0 - 9.
What is the Decimal System?
500
The increase in force or speed produced by mechanical devices such as levers, gears or pulleys.
What is Mechanical Advantage.
500
The side opposite over the side adjacent on a right triangle.
What is the Tangent of an angle?
500
The form of a compound that changes it's shape, but not it's volume.
What is a Liquid?
500
The smallest particle of a compound.
What is a Molecule?
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