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Smile: Lab Work: Come Fly With Me

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This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students use a vacuum cleaner hose, ping pong balls, straws and other materials to investigate the effect of moving air upon the surfaces which it hits. Principles are applied as students build a glider to test their understanding.

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Concepts
aerodynamics, air, air pressure, airplanes, flight, bernoulli's principle
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Additional Tags
aerodynamic design, ailerons, flights, glider, physics of flight, physics project, physics projects, project, projects, rudders, bernoulli, illinois institute of technology, aerodynamic, fluid
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information