Citat:
Ursprungligen postat av Psychobat
6. A fully loaded aircraft is going to take off. It is in the middle of the night and the air
temperature has decreased from 34° to 22°. Two questions:
a) Is it better (easier) or is it worse (more difficult) to make the aircraft lift off when the
temperature has decreased (when the air is more cool)?
b) Explain why it is easier or more difficult for a lift off when the temperature is low.
7. An aircraft is in fact gaining potential energy after takeoff and during climb.
Two questions:
a) What is meant by “gaining potential energy”? Explain how an aircraft can gain in
energy during climb.
b) Potential energy (PE) is possible to measure. If the aircraft weighs 10.000 kg and it
climbs from 0 up to 300 meters – what is then the PE?
8. The space shuttles produced and used by NASA in USA have been equipped with short,
stubby wings. It is in fact not necessary for a spacecraft to have wings at all.
How come? Why is it not necessary for a spacecraft, travelling in the outer space, to
have large, wide wings?
6a,b kall luft har högre densitet, och mer lyftkraft
7a: första lagen inom termodynamik: energi kan bara övergå från en form till en annan, här omsätter vi energin i bränslet till potentiell energy
b: potentiell energi är m*g*h där g är gravitationskonstanten
8 för i rymden finns ingen atmosfär och därav ingen lyftkraft från luften. vingarna används bara för att landa