HISTORY OF FLIGHT
Who achieved the first powered, controlled flight?
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Which force pushes an aircraft upward?
What is lift?
What part of the wing creates lift?
What is the airfoil shape?
What law explains rocket thrust?
What is Newton’s 3rd Law?
Who is the main character in The Martian?
Who is Mark Watney?
In what year did the Wright Brothers fly?
What is 1903?
Which force opposes forward motion?
What is drag?
What happens when angle of attack is too high?
What is a stall?
Why can rockets work in space?
What is they don’t need air; action–reaction still applies?
Why does Watney need to grow food on Mars?
What is rescue will take years?
What major problem did the Wright Brothers solve to control flight?
What is pitch, roll, and yaw control?
Which force moves an aircraft forward?
What is thrust?
Which control surface controls roll?
What are ailerons?
What is the purpose of rocket stages?
What is to reduce mass and increase efficiency?
What engineering process does Watney use to survive?
What is the Engineering Design Process?
Why were the Wright Brothers successful where others failed?
What is they tested and improved designs using engineering?
Which force pulls an aircraft toward Earth?
What is weight?
Which control surface controls pitch?
What is the elevator?
Which rocket stage provides liftoff?
What is the booster stage?
What is one major danger when Watney makes water?
What is explosive chemical reactions?
What engineering habit helped the Wright Brothers succeed?
What is experimentation and iteration?
For an airplane to climb, lift must be greater than what?
What is weight?
Which control surface controls yaw?
What is the rudder?
What two things do rockets carry that planes don’t need?
What are fuel and oxidizer?
How does Watney use problem decomposition?
What is breaking big problems into smaller solvable steps?