AIR AND

AERODYNAMIC
S
Science 6 Online Course: #6
  Air is invisible
 Air is scentless
 Air is tasteless
 You cannot hear still air
 You cannot feel still air
 Air has mass

REVIEW  Air takes up space

 Air exerts pressure in all directions (up, down,
sideways)
 Air is fluid
 Air can be compressed
 Hot air expands
 Cold air compresses
TODAY’S
TOPIC:
Bernoulli’s Principal Day 2
BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE
 The Bernoulli’s Principle states that “the SPEED of a
fluid (such as air) determines the amount of
PRESSURE that it can exert
 As a fluid (like air) moves faster, it rushes past the
object and doesn’t weigh it down, so it produces less/
lower pressure. So then, slower moving fluids (like
air) produce greater/ higher pressure because they are
slower and push weight (because air has weight)on to
the object
BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE:
SIMPLIFIED

 Faster Moving Air = Low Pressure Slow Moving Air = High Pressure
AIRPLANE EXAMPLE…

 The higher pressure under the wings from the fast-moving air is greater than the lower pressure
over the wings from the slower moving air and forces the plane up, or lifts, that allows the airplane
to fly
 REMEMBER OUR PING PONG
BALL EXAMPLE?
 This activity is an example of Bernoulli’s
principle
 Slow moving air has a greater pressure
than fast moving air
 The slow-moving air surrounding it
pushes the ball back into the stream of air
 If the dryer is raised or lowered the ball
will follow the movement
 The the dryer is turned to high speed, the
ball will float higher
DEMONSTRATION: BALLOON
BEHAVIOR
 Let’s watch an experiment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_DUlhl0oxk
 Remember our pop can example? Will the same
thing happen with some balloons?
 Our question: How does blowing air affect air
pressure?
DEMONSTRATION: BALLOON
BEHAVIOR
 What happened and why?
 Still air at HIGHER pressure pushes the balloons
together
 Moving air at LOWER pressure allows the
balloons to come together
DEMONSTRATION: SO THAT’S
WHAT THEY MEAN BY LIFT
 What happened?
 How did they make the paper lift?
 By blowing across the book, we have created an essential ingredient
of flight – lift!
 By blowing over the piece of paper, you provide the air stream that
lifted it.
 This demonstrates Bernoulli’s Principle that fast-moving air creates
an area of pressure lower than air that moves slowly
 As our volunteer blew the paper, they created a low-pressure area,
and the paper was forced up by higher atmospheric pressure
 This phenomenon is called “lift”
WHAT IS LIFT?
 What is lift?
 Lift is an upward force which acts against the force
of gravity- reducing air pressure on the top side of an
airfoil produces lift
 Whenever an aircraft wing moves into the wind, it cuts
the airflow into two. Instead of one air stream, there
are now two! One flowing over the top of the wing, the
other flowing under the wing
 If the wing had been built with a curved top and a flat
bottom, the air stream running over the top follows a
different path than the air stream passing under the
bottom.
 This creates a difference in air pressure between top and
bottom of the wing and “lift” is the result
LEARNING LOGS
 Open your most recent Learning Log: “Learning Log 2”
 At the bottom of the Log, on a new page, enter the date
 Add our key ideas!
 The Bernoulli’s Principle states that the SPEED of a fluid determines the amount of PRESSURE that it can
exert.
 As a fluid moves FASTER, it rushes past the object and doesn’t weigh it down, so it produces LOWER
presser
 SLOWER moving fluids produce HIGHER pressure because they are slower and push weight on the object
 Fast Moving Air = Lower Pressure
 Slow Moving Air= Higher Pressure
 Lift: Lift is an upward force which acts against the force of gravity- reducing air pressure on the top side of
an airfoil produces lift