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An Archive of:
The Learning Technology Channel and Aero Design Team Online
presention of
Brent Wellman, On Creating Lift
On Thursday, February 5, Brent Wellman, 2GCHAS Project Manager, presented
a very uplifting lecture/demonstration for 45 minutes with some activities
using airfoils with unusual shapes that can generate lift.
For more information about lift read the section on "What forces act on an airplane?"
in the background section and to add to your hands on understanding of
lift you might want to try some of the lessons in the teacher's resource
section like "Funnel Follies" and
"Loop Airplane". We
also suggest you read Brent's autobiography.
Activities
Brent demonstrated some experiments about generating lift. These activities
are easily repeated at home or in the classroom. Below are the supplies
required for each experiment and a link to the real media clip of each
experiment (Sorry an audio only file is not available). These clips are
under 2 minutes each and can be viewed with Real Player. To learn more
about this technology and to download this software go to the links for
Download the RealPlayer, and Technical Overview at the bottom of this
page.
Archived Event
An archive of the lecture with Brent Wellman. These archives, audio
and media, are approximately 45 minutes in length. They include the experiments
list above and some examples of airfoils and a discussion of Bernoulli's
principle.
Download the RealPlayer. (The
application program that allows you to hear or watch the events.)
If you are unsure of which technologies your connectivity
and desktop platform will support, you may want to review the
Technical Overview for this
event.
You may also want to Test
The Technologies.
Return to Aero Design Team
Online
This Quest Project Web page
was last updated on February 6, 1998.
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