ozziecat35
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Backstory: my 5 year old daughter is becoming more and more fascinated with airplanes, and my wife home schools her, so we have a perfect opportunity to introduce some basic "how does an airplane fly" science into her curriculum. As I understand it, the FAA prefers the Bernoulli & Newton's 3rd law explanations to be taught to students. Obviously there are more complex physics involved then just Bernoulli and Newton, but that's over my head too. I seem to recall a thread a while back where someone linked to a NASA article explaining lift, which was very technical...that being said, as I was doing some online googling to find better ways to explain to my daughter how an airplane flies, I came across this:
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/what-is-aerodynamics-k4.html#.VADR1vldV8E
which is basically a very basic Bernoulli explanation. That's fine, but also goes against what I thought was the group thought that comes down to the, "Well, Bernoulli and Newton aren't a wrong way to teach it, but there's more to the story," idea. At what does NASA decide someone can learn the "truth" and tell them there's more to the B&N explanation.
If you've followed my ramblings so far, congratulations, I'll try and get to the point. I'm about to take my CFI checkride, and I want to make sure that Bernoulli / Newton is still the correct way to teach lift. (Also if anyone has cool ideas for a VERY smart 5 year old interested in the subject, my wife and I are all ears!).
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/what-is-aerodynamics-k4.html#.VADR1vldV8E
which is basically a very basic Bernoulli explanation. That's fine, but also goes against what I thought was the group thought that comes down to the, "Well, Bernoulli and Newton aren't a wrong way to teach it, but there's more to the story," idea. At what does NASA decide someone can learn the "truth" and tell them there's more to the B&N explanation.
If you've followed my ramblings so far, congratulations, I'll try and get to the point. I'm about to take my CFI checkride, and I want to make sure that Bernoulli / Newton is still the correct way to teach lift. (Also if anyone has cool ideas for a VERY smart 5 year old interested in the subject, my wife and I are all ears!).