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  2. History of aerodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Air resistance experiments were performed by investigators throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, aided by the construction of the first wind tunnel in 1871. In his 1738 publication Hydrodynamica , Daniel Bernoulli described a fundamental relationship between pressure, velocity, and density, now termed Bernoulli's principle , which provides ...

  3. George Cayley - Wikipedia

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    There are display boards and a video film at the Royal Air Force Museum London in Hendon honouring Cayley's achievements and a modern exhibition and film "Pioneers of Aviation" at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York. The Sir George Cayley Sailwing Club is a North Yorkshire-based free flight club, affiliated to the British Hang Gliding and ...

  4. Drag (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In aerodynamics, aerodynamic drag, also known as air resistance, is the fluid drag force that acts on any moving solid body in the direction of the air's freestream flow. [ 23 ] From the body's perspective (near-field approach), the drag results from forces due to pressure distributions over the body surface, symbolized D p r {\displaystyle D ...

  5. Newton's sine-square law of air resistance - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton's sine-squared law of air resistance is a formula that implies the force on a flat plate immersed in a moving fluid is proportional to the square of the sine of the angle of attack. Although Newton did not analyze the force on a flat plate himself, the techniques he used for spheres, cylinders, and conical bodies were later applied ...

  6. Aerodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Aerodynamics (Ancient Greek: ἀήρ aero (air) + Ancient Greek: δυναμική (dynamics)) is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. [1] It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dynamics and its subfield of gas dynamics, and is an important domain of study in aeronautics.

  7. Magnus effect - Wikipedia

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    Air immediately above and below the cylinder is curving downwards, accelerated by the pressure gradient. A downwards force is acting on the air. Newton's third law predicts that the Magnus force and the downwards force acting on the air are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

  8. 2 NWTC students found a new antibiotic in soil at ... - AOL

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    Antibiotics have stopped working: A worldwide crisis. People are in a molecular race against time. Bacteria is evolving faster than the level of antibiotic discovery, and antibiotic resistance has ...

  9. John Tyndall - Wikipedia

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    The broths sitting in the optically pure air remained "sweet" (as he said) to smell and taste after many months of sitting, while the ones in ordinary air started to become putrid after a few days. This demonstration extended Louis Pasteur 's earlier demonstrations that the presence of micro-organisms is a precondition for biomass decomposition.