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Soaring by Design - for iPod/iPhone

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How do you go about designing an aircraft that has no engine? What forces enable a glider to become airborne and quickly reach high altitudes quickly? The tracks in this album look at the aerodynamics of gliders, ask questions relating to the 'Speed to Fly', and explores the consequences of kinetic and potential energy change, providing a useful way of modelling the behaviour of a glider in the air. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models.
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Episodes

Modeling Flight

Introducing the forces a glider is exposed to during flight.

May 11, 2009•2 min

Avoiding Collisions

Demonstrating the change of energy when a pilot dives to avoid a collision.

May 11, 2009•3 min

Wing Design: Predictions

The transfer of the huge forces between the wings and the glider body, and how the forces are resisted.

May 11, 2009•9 min

Measuring Experimentally

The ways in which prototype gliders are tested, producing accurate polar curves.

May 11, 2009•3 min

The Final Glide

The changes in the Total Energy of a glider when it comes in to the finish of a competition are examined.

May 11, 2009•2 min

Transcript -- The Final Glide

Transcript -- The changes in the Total Energy of a glider when it comes in to the finish of a competition are examined.

May 11, 2009
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