58 - Flight
Episode description
How do you fly in the sky? What do swoll pecs have to do with flying? Is it true that physics says that bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly?
We're back from our hiatus with an exciting episode on how planes, birds and bees take to the sky and soar freely!
Airfoil, camber, angle of attack and how Newton's Third Law of Motion creates lift
Bernoulli's principle visualised with a wine bottle
Video of how various birds move their wings during flight
Diagram of how leading edge vortices cling to an insect's wings to generate lift
Visualisation of inferior mirage
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Opening music: "Groundwork" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0