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Air and Aerodynamic Vocabulary Terms

This document defines key terms related to air and aerodynamics, including aerodynamics, airfoils, air pressure, lift, drag, and thrust. It explains concepts such as Bernoulli's principle, which describes how the pressure of a fluid like air decreases as its speed increases. It also defines parts of aircraft like propellers and jet engines, and how their operation utilizes air pressure and movement to propel planes.

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Air and Aerodynamic Vocabulary Terms

This document defines key terms related to air and aerodynamics, including aerodynamics, airfoils, air pressure, lift, drag, and thrust. It explains concepts such as Bernoulli's principle, which describes how the pressure of a fluid like air decreases as its speed increases. It also defines parts of aircraft like propellers and jet engines, and how their operation utilizes air pressure and movement to propel planes.

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Air & Aerodynamics Glossary

 Aerodynamics : The science of moving through air.


 Air : An invisible mixture of gases which make up the
Earth's atmosphere - it consists mainly of nitrogen and
oxygen.
 Airfoil : A shape designed to provide lift when air flows &
surrounds it.
 Air pressure : The force exerted on the surface of objects
by the weight of air particles - air pressure acts from all
directions and increases with increased concentration of air
molecules.
 Air resistance : Resistance or friction that acts to slow
down and object as it moves through air.
 Atmosphere : The mass of air which surrounds the earth.
 Barbules : Projections on barbs that link with those above
and below them to keep all the barbs connected making a
solid feather surface.
 Bernoulli's principle : When the speed of a fluid is low
(water or air), the pressure is high. When the speed of a
fluid is high the pressure is low. The faster that air moves
across a surface, the lower the air pressure.
 Burning : A rapid form of oxidation in which substances
combine with oxygen to form one or more oxides and
plenty of heat and light, also called combustion.
 Compression : The squeezing of the particles of a gas or
porous body into a smaller space.
 Contour feathers : The larger feathers that cover the body-
of birds and their wings. Contour feathers include flight
feathers.
 Down : Short fluffy feathers that lie underneath contour
feathers. These feathers trap air and act as an insulator
helping birds stay warm.
 Drag : Resistance or friction that acts to slow down an
object as it moves through a gas or liquid.
 Expand : To take up more room.
 Friction : The force that resists motion of one body over or
through another.
 Glider : A aircraft that flies without an engine - its pilot
tries to find updrafts of air to gain height and extend the
flight.
 Gravity : A force of attraction that every mass in the
universe exerts on other masses. This force increases with
increase in mass of an object.
 Hovercraft : A machine that floats on a cushion a cushion
of compressed air.
 Jet engine : An engine that generates a powerful thrust in a
chamber where the explosion of the burning fuel pushes on
the airplane in a forward direction but escapes out the back.
 Keratin : A tough flexible protein that makes up fingernails
and other parts of animals including the shaft of feathers.
 Kinetic energy : Energy of motion. The faster an object
moves the more kinetic energy it has.
 Lift : Upward force which acts against the force of gravity -
reducing air pressure on the top side of an airfoil produces
lift.
 Mass : The amount of matter in an object
 Pectoral muscles : Muscles of the chest.
 Preening : The act of rubbing preen gland oil on the
feathers with the beak and zipping up the barbules again.
 Propeller : Curved blade that, when spun around quickly,
forces an aircraft forward - a propeller is a twisted airfoil.
 Oxidation : Occurs when a substance combines with
oxygen.
 Resistance : Drag or friction that acts to slow down an
object as it moves through a gas or liquid.
 Rusting : A slow chemical reaction between iron and
oxygen to form rust or iron oxide.
 Streamlining : The shaping of an object so that a gas or
liquid will move easily around it.
 Thrust : The force that causes an object to move forward.
 Weight : The force with which gravity pull on an object -
technically it should be expressed in Newtons but is often
measured in units of mass such as grams or kilograms.

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