Monthly Archives: August 2014

Some cool physics questions

August 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm

Can you explain how these work?    

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Thursday and Friday at U-Design

August 3, 2014 at 10:15 pm

Thursday was a busy day finishing our rockets.  Everyone finished their Estes rockets and most people started their bottle rockets. Thursday afternoon Glynn Holt talked to us about his experiences at NASA and what it was like to go through the astronaut training program as a Mission Specialist and the details of his experiment which […]

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Wednesday at U-Design

August 2, 2014 at 10:42 pm

I began the day discussion air flow, air foils, and the phenomena of lift.  Using some simulations from NASA we examined how air flowed over an air foil to create the lift which allows planes to fly. After my explanation using the computer simulation, we had a demonstration of the Wind Tunnel by Aaron Y. […]

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