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How do wings work?

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Holger Babinsky

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The popular explanation of lift is common, quick, sounds logical and gives the correct answer, yet also introduces misconceptions, uses a nonsensical physical argument and misleadingly invokes Bernoulli's equation. A simple analysis of pressure gradients and the curvature of streamlines is presented here to give a more correct explanation of lift.


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01.40.-d Education

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Education and communication

Dates

Issue 6 ( 1 November 2003)

Received 9 September 2003



  1. How do wings work?

    Holger Babinsky 2003 Phys. Educ. 38 497

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