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Soaring by Design - for iPod/iPhone
by The Open University
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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Soaring by Design
A short introduction to this album.
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Modeling Flight
Introducing the forces a glider is exposed to during flight.
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Avoiding Collisions
Demonstrating the change of energy when a pilot dives to avoid a collision.
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The Mechanics of Launching
Examining the process of winching as a launch mechanism.
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Wing Design: Predictions
The transfer of the huge forces between the wings and the glider body, and how the forces are resisted.
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Wing Design: Testing and Building
The predictions of air flow on the wings, generated by mathematical modeling are compared with the real thing.
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Measuring Experimentally
The ways in which prototype gliders are tested, producing accurate polar curves.
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The Final Glide
The changes in the Total Energy of a glider when it comes in to the finish of a competition are examined.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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