Concept of Airplanes

Physics of Airplanes


The physics of airplanes is quite complex. This writing will just be going over the basic physics of how airplanes work it will also go through what their roles are today and how important aircrafts are today.
In short the main concept of airplanes is the flight. Although there is much more physics to an airplane’s flight, this writing will go over the main idea of lift. The main factors that affect the lift are the area of the wing, shape, angle, tilt and speed. These will affect the velocities above and below the wing. The shape of the wing is very important to the lift. Imagine this from a profile view, it would look flat on the bottom and then on the top it would have an arc towards the front of the wing and would even out in the back. Since the top has more area than the bottom wind would have to travel faster than the bottom; so when the plane begins to move the wind passing over the wings will have different velocities. To even this ...