Aeronautics Related Activities, Experiments, and Lesson Plans

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

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 3

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