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The cross-sectional shape of a wing, blade, or sail.
What is an Airfoil?
The mathematical study of continuous change.
What is Calculus?
Invented by Isaac Newton, who also invented physics. He viewed calculus as the scientific description of the generation of motion and magnitudes.
A pioneer of aeronautical engineering and referred to as the "father of aviation".
Who was George Cayley?
The four forces which act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle.
What is Weight, Lift, Drag and Thrust?
A common series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes.
What is the Engineering Design Process?
The action or process of pushing or pulling to drive an object forward.
What is Propulsion?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite re-action.
What is Newton's Third Law?
The inventors of the first successful motor-operated airplane.
Who were Wilbur and Orville Wright?
A force that’s always directed toward the center of the Earth.
What is Weight?
A government statutory authority in each country that maintains an aircraft register and oversees the approval and regulation of civil aviation.
What is the National Aviation Authority?
The study of motion of air, particularly as an interaction with a solid object, such as an airplane wing or rocket fin.
What is Aerodynamics?
The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to its mass.
What is Newton's Second Law?
F=ma
Force is equal to an object's mass times its acceleration.
The first truly practical fixed-wing aircraft.
What was the Wright Flyer III?
The push that lets something move up. It’s the force that is the opposite of weight.
What is Lift?
True or False: A strong heavyweight aircraft is typically the main requirement and rarely are other attributes ever considered.
False. Demands require a balance: Strong, Lightweight, Economical
The study, design, and manufacturing of air flight–capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.
What is Aeronautics?
An object will remain at rest or in a uniform straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law?
A fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.
What is a Modern Airplane?
A force that tries to slow something down,
What is Drag?
The branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, radiation, and physical properties of matter.
What is Thermodynamics?
The theory and practice of travel beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space.
What is Aeronautics?
The application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft.
What is Astrodynamics?
December 17, 1903
What was the date of the flight of the first Wright Flyer which flew for 4 miles?
The force that is the opposite of drag creating a push that moves something forward.
What is Thrust?
On an airplane, lift is used to overcome the weight of the aircraft. On a _____, however, thrust is used in opposition to weight.
Rocket