Wind Tunnels
Number of fans and location
What is four and above the flight chamber
This force increases as an object falls through air
What is drag (or air resistance)?
A push or a pull
What is a force?
Two variables of terminal velocity that vary from person to person
What are mass and frontal area?
Protects the eyes during flight
What are goggles?
Name of columns on the sides of the building
What are return air towers?
This force remains constant throughout a skydive
What is force of weight (mass x gravity)?
The portion of an object that the wind can push
What is frontal area?
This happens to terminal velocity when mass increases.
What is increases?
Protects your hearing while in the wind tunnel
What are earplugs?
Type of system where air is recirculated
What is closed loop?
Distance/Time
What is speed?
When the forces of gravity and drag (air resistance) are equal, and when the acceleration of the object equals zero
What is terminal velocity?
This happens to terminal velocity when frontal area increases.
What is decreases?
Reason the flight suit should fit big/baggy
What is to increase drag/air resistance?
Purpose of turning vanes
What is create smooth air flow?
Speed in a given direction.
What is velocity?
The effect mass has on an object's velocity when falling through a vacuum
What is none?
Your terminal velocity on Mars would do this compared to Earth.
What is increase?
Spring loaded and made of steel
What is the safety net?
Purpose of inlet contractor
What is increase air speed?
A head down orientation during free fall will have this affect on a skydiver's velocity
What is increase?
An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion? or Law of Inertia?
9.81m/s2
What is acceleration due to gravity?
The approximate amount of continued flight you would have if all fans stop spinning.
What is 8 seconds?