Soaring by Design - for iPod/iPhone
By The Open University
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Description
How do you go about designing an aircraft that has no engine? What forces enable a glider to become airborne and quickly reach high altitudes quickly? The tracks in this album look at the aerodynamics of gliders, ask questions relating to the 'Speed to Fly', and explores the consequences of kinetic and potential energy change, providing a useful way of modelling the behaviour of a glider in the air. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models.
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Soaring by Design | A short introduction to this album. | 12 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Soaring by Design | Transcript -- A short introduction to this album. | 12 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoModeling Flight | Introducing the forces a glider is exposed to during flight. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Modeling Flight | Transcript -- Introducing the forces a glider is exposed to during flight. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoAvoiding Collisions | Demonstrating the change of energy when a pilot dives to avoid a collision. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Avoiding Collisions | Transcript -- Demonstrating the change of energy when a pilot dives to avoid a collision. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoThe Mechanics of Launching | Examining the process of winching as a launch mechanism. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Mechanics of Launching | Transcript -- Examining the process of winching as a launch mechanism. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoWing Design: Predictions | The transfer of the huge forces between the wings and the glider body, and how the forces are resisted. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Wing Design: Predictions | Transcript -- The transfer of the huge forces between the wings and the glider body, and how the forces are resisted. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoWing Design: Testing and Building | The predictions of air flow on the wings, generated by mathematical modeling are compared with the real thing. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Wing Design: Testing and Building | Transcript -- The predictions of air flow on the wings, generated by mathematical modeling are compared with the real thing. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoMeasuring Experimentally | The ways in which prototype gliders are tested, producing accurate polar curves. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Measuring Experimentally | Transcript -- The ways in which prototype gliders are tested, producing accurate polar curves. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe Final Glide | The changes in the Total Energy of a glider when it comes in to the finish of a competition are examined. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Final Glide | Transcript -- The changes in the Total Energy of a glider when it comes in to the finish of a competition are examined. | 10 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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