Aeronautics Related Activities, Experiments, and Lesson Plans

Below are activities, experiments and lesson plans that will help explain some of basic principles of aeronautics.

• Using a wind tunnel to measure the drag coefficient on student designed dragster cars (9 th Grade)
• Finding the Velocity of a fluid in a confined container
• Fluid Pressure and Depth
• Pascal's Principle and Hydraulics
• Lift Formula
• Archimedes' Principle : Buoyancy
• Weight and Balance Forces acting on an Airplane (Balances of Forces Produces Equilibrium)
• How to build a Paper Jet Model
• Knots versus Miles per Hour
• The First and Second Laws of Motion
• Newton's Third Law of Motion
• Collecting Data on Running Speeds
• Graphing Data from a Spreadsheet
• Experiment: Vector Addition by the Numerical Method
• Space Mathematics Worksheet 1
• Space Mathematics Worksheet 2
• Space Mathematics Worksheet

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