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Physics: Flight

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Aerodynamics: What Causes Lift?  

Aerodynamics: What Causes Lift?
How does an airplane stay aloft when upside down? This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site offers an explanation based on Newton's third law of motion.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Airplanes: Designing for Stealth  

Airplanes: Designing for Stealth
Explore this NOVA interactive activity to see how engineers have modified a military plane's sound, shape, and heat emissions to minimize detection.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Centripetal Force: Pulling Cs and Gs  

Centripetal Force: Pulling Cs and Gs
In this interactive activity from NOVA, discover how centripetal force can affect you when riding in a car or flying at high speeds in a fighter jet.

3-8 HTML Interactive
Franklin Chang-Díaz: Rocket Scientist  

Franklin Chang-Díaz: Rocket Scientist
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW profiles Franklin Chang-Díaz, a scientist who is working on plasma-powered rockets and was NASA's first Latin American astronaut.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Getting Airborne and Wing Design  

Getting Airborne and Wing Design
What makes an airplane fly? Discover the connection between Newton's third law of motion and flight in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Imaging with Radar  

Imaging with Radar
This interactive activity from NOVA features synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which uses radio waves to create high-quality images. Examine SAR images of Washington, D.C., and learn about this technology's unique advantages.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles  

Pilotless Flight: Timeline of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Explore this NOVA interactive timeline and discover the many technological innovations in the history of unmanned flight, from hot-air balloons to miniature flying robots.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Robofly  

Robofly
Featuring slow-motion footage of insects in flight, this video adapted from NOVA explores the engineering challenge of designing a robotic aerial vehicle that flies like a bug.

6-12 QuickTime Video
To Survive at High Velocity  

To Survive at High Velocity
This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at speed, velocity, and centripetal force on the racetrack.

6-12 QuickTime Video