Folks,
there's way more to this topic than anyone has said so far. Here are some
resources
(and
please let's get back to Finale, because whenever we stray from that things get
weird
very
quickly.)
1.
Stop Abusing Bernoulli: How Airplanes Really Fly, Gale Craig, Regenerative
Press1997
Ok, Craig's a bit cranky but it's a fun read
anyway.
2.
Theory of Flight, Richard von Mises, Dover, 1945
Not an easy read, but comprehensive and still used in
aeronautics courses
3.
Leave Bernoulli Out of This, Bob Colwell, IEEE Computer, May
2003
4.
"See How It Flies" in http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how
5.
"Understanding Flight" by David F. Anderson and Scott Eberhardt,
McGraw Hill, 2001
6. The
Simple Science of Flight, Henk Tennekes, MIT Press 1997
I loved this book. It uses birds for all of its examples,
and shows how speed and distance
are
related to wingspan. Tennekes says if it flies, it obeys the same laws, whether
it's a 747
or a
hummingbird. Great fun.
Essentially, Bernoulli's effect (which does NOT have anything to do with
accelerating
low
pressure air), Newton's law on action/reaction, and the Coanda effect, combined
with
suitable subtlety, can account for flying machines. But no one of them by
itself can.
-BobC
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