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Gliders Key Vocabulary

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 11 months ago
 
Picture and animations came from http://nasaexplores.nasa.gov .
 
 
Forces of Flight
  • Lift: A force that keeps the plane in the air. It is created by the shape of the wing and uneven air pressure.
  • Gravity: The force that pulls objects toward the center of the earth.
  • Thrust: A force created by an engine that moves the aircraft forward.
  • Drag: A force created by an object running into the air.  It always slows down an object. 

 

 

Gliders

  • Pitch: The up and down movement of the nose of the aircraft.
    Computer animation of the Wright 1902 aircraft
 showing the nose moving up and down.
  • Roll: The up and down motion of the wings.
    Computer animation of the Wright 1902 aircraft
 showing the wings moving up and down.
     
     
  • Yaw: The side to side motion of the wings.
     

Computer animation of the Wright 1902 aircraft
showing the nose moving side to side.

 

 

Wing aspect Ratio = length of wing /width of wing

 

Bernoulli's Principle: The air must travel faster over the top of the airfoil creating lower pressure on the top of the wing. The higher pressure underneath the wing pushes the wing up giving it lift.

a picture of a wing's cross section

 

 

Comments (Show all 50)

Anonymous said

at 5:34 pm on Nov 13, 2007

THIS QUARTER IS GOING TO ROCK!!!!

Anonymous said

at 5:34 pm on Nov 13, 2007

This is gonna be so cool, I've always been interested in planes and missles.

Anonymous said

at 5:38 pm on Nov 13, 2007

the moving pictures on the front page are realy helpful with the pitch, roll, and yaw.

Anonymous said

at 5:42 pm on Nov 13, 2007

I think this is going to be an awesome quarter! I can't wait!

Anonymous said

at 5:48 pm on Nov 13, 2007

i like the animations. i like the sounds of the projects, all hands-on.

Anonymous said

at 6:03 pm on Nov 13, 2007

this quarter sounds like it will be kind of confusing. hahh . oh well . i guess ill like it when i learn more . =)

Anonymous said

at 6:12 pm on Nov 13, 2007

These projects seem fun and very interesting. The wiki is going to be helpful this quarter. Totally psyched for science this quarter.

Anonymous said

at 6:25 pm on Nov 13, 2007

in class, what we were talking about was kinda confusing. i will probably get it sometime though. what we are doing sounds cool and funn also!

Anonymous said

at 6:31 pm on Nov 13, 2007

in class i was kind of understanding it, but the pics help me understand it alot better

Anonymous said

at 7:25 pm on Nov 13, 2007

I was also kind of confused in class...but the vocab with pictures helped alot...I'm sooo glad to be starting science...

Anonymous said

at 8:13 pm on Nov 13, 2007

The pics. really help me understand pich, roll, yaw, and the 4 different direction things: lift, thrust, drag, and gravity. Maybe add a pic. to show the 4 things. See you in science tommorrow! =)

Anonymous said

at 8:23 pm on Nov 13, 2007

yo science peeps, was crakin, aight man, them pics were TIghT, dude the planes had like hydrolyics man, hahah, they wre pretty sik, keep it real :-P

Anonymous said

at 9:51 pm on Nov 13, 2007

In "The New Way Things Work", almost all of the flying machines had different kinds of thrust, but they all had low drag. Is there any kind of aircraft that I don't know of that has medium or high drag?

Anonymous said

at 8:58 am on Nov 14, 2007

i like the wiki because this way we can post comments.

Anonymous said

at 2:04 pm on Nov 14, 2007

the pictures helped me learn more about what the vocab means. overall I think that the projects are going to be fun. Those water bottle rockets look fun and so does the roller coaster project.

Anonymous said

at 2:29 pm on Nov 14, 2007

i am so glad to be starting science this all sounds so interesting. i think that this is going to help a lot during the quarter!

Anonymous said

at 2:54 pm on Nov 14, 2007

I like the new wiki and think that it is pretty cool. I am looking forward to the new quarter and i think that i understand the vocab.

Anonymous said

at 2:57 pm on Nov 14, 2007

ROFL!

Anonymous said

at 2:58 pm on Nov 14, 2007

Shouldn't the teachers lock the teacher made pages, becasue someone could for example replace everything on the "important vocab" page with "ROFL!"

Anonymous said

at 3:00 pm on Nov 14, 2007

great page of gliders i love the moving pictures and the definitions are easy to read and understand. looking forward to this quarter learning about science. can't wait!!!

Anonymous said

at 3:05 pm on Nov 14, 2007

The wikipedia web page is cool. I think that it will help us in the future...its a really great idea!

Anonymous said

at 3:23 pm on Nov 14, 2007

ms. thomas, you are one of the coolest teachers I have ever met! you too ms. jensen!

Anonymous said

at 3:42 pm on Nov 14, 2007

i think this wiki page is really cool and it is a great way to find out answers for homework or any projects. I wish we had this for all the subjects!!

Anonymous said

at 3:44 pm on Nov 14, 2007

Hmm, w/e i did my homework

Anonymous said

at 4:46 pm on Nov 14, 2007

i think this is definatly help me do well in science this quarter.

Anonymous said

at 4:49 pm on Nov 14, 2007

I really think that the vocabulary is cool because there are the moving picture things so that it is really easy to understand. I'm really looking forward to Science and this is such a cool ides with the Wiki thingy and all the other stuff!

-Promethium

Anonymous said

at 5:13 pm on Nov 14, 2007

I like the new vocab page. THe moving pictures help a lot. I can't wait for the quarter to start!!

Anonymous said

at 6:33 pm on Nov 14, 2007

awsome page how did you get the pictures to move. that was sssssssssssssssssssswwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Anonymous said

at 7:08 pm on Nov 14, 2007

it's fine not to fun but it will help with my stuff. vocab is cool it is fun to say YAW. i want to be the weird guy and the plain YAW. it reminds me of that sport were you on that flight thing YAW. I can't wait to do the rockets YAW. it's gunna be like the weird air hogs thing YAW. were you push the button and it fly high then it goes down and make it get stuck into the trees YAW. then I'm mad YAW.........YAW. See YAW at project YAW!! :)

Anonymous said

at 7:21 pm on Nov 14, 2007

Well... i' m sure it'll be helpful... it's easy to remember and, yes, "yaw" is fun to say... a second ago i didn't even think it was a word... YAW!!! (sorry sodium for stealing your YAW thing... i just couldn't resist saying yaw more than once...) ( i like ...ing, if you haven't noticed)

Anonymous said

at 7:25 pm on Nov 14, 2007

Oh yeah, and when the sub said "wiki" i was really kinda weirded out because i had no idea what it was and i have a big vocab, even if i don't use it... =)

Anonymous said

at 7:53 pm on Nov 14, 2007

i think it is ok because it can help me when i dont bring things home. and it is a neat way to find info. and for what i saw it was pretty awsome.

Anonymous said

at 8:23 pm on Nov 14, 2007

Yeah, i always foret to bring stuff home, forgot to brin gthe instructions packet hom! This'll definitly help, pretty cool.

Anonymous said

at 8:26 pm on Nov 14, 2007

Sometimes i foret how to spell forget,and bring, and the, and home too!

Anonymous said

at 8:51 pm on Nov 14, 2007

I think the website idea thing is really cool, it's a good way to check the vocab incase something happens to our sheets or we leave it at school or something, or if our definitions aren't helping us enough.I still think it's pretty cool that all of the forces together and everything can make a plane fly.

Anonymous said

at 9:04 pm on Nov 14, 2007

This website is awesome! I think it is a great idea and a great way to share our knowledge with each other

Anonymous said

at 10:28 pm on Nov 14, 2007

It is really cool and it really helps me

Anonymous said

at 9:02 am on Nov 15, 2007

i am very excited about this quarter and the upcoming projects and activities we are going to do in class.

Anonymous said

at 6:57 pm on Nov 15, 2007

yo dawgs, yaw is the new "it" word, haha, aight peeps, imma bounce now, PCe OuT
:-P

Anonymous said

at 5:02 pm on Dec 13, 2007

Hey, i think that this website is realy cool and helpful if you don't know what Pitch, Roll, or Yaw ment you can look on here and you will get all of the information you need. It's all here.

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