Aerospace Engineering Review

Fluid mechanics is the study of how air flows around solid objects.

• True

• False

_____ is when the wing of a plane creates a downward force on the air, which in turn creates an upward force on the wing.

• Drag

• Propulsion

• Lift

• Gravity

___________ engines are used on extremely high-speed aircraft and spacecraft. Fuels are mixed and then explode in the combustion chamber.

• Jet

• Turbofan

• Rocket

• Turbojet

Bernoulli’s principle states that an increase in fluid speed creates a decrease in _____

• weight

• pressure

• mass

• yaw

Combination of navigation, communications, flight control, monitoring, weather systems, and tactical electronics (aviation electronics). _________

• Avionics

• Angle of Attack

• Landers

• Satellites

Theory that states an airfoil is more curved on the top, so air traveling over the wing has to travel farther than the air traveling under the wing, causing the air flowing over the wing to flow faster relative to the wing than the air flowing under the wing, causing a low pressure zone above the wing and, therefore, lift.

• Bernoulli theory of lift

• gas turbine engine

• aerodynamics

• wind turbine

Upward angle of wings away from the body that creates stability.

• astronautics

• gas turbine engine

• dihedral angle

• angle of incidence

Type of spacecraft that orbits the earth because the centrifugal force created by its motion is in perfect balance with the earth’s gravitational pull.

• gas turbine engine

• satellite

• elevator

• thrust

Forward force acting on an aircraft or spacecraft created by air or gases being pushed to the rear.

• aileron

• thrust

• elevator

• Bernoulli theory of lift

Aerodynamic force created by the friction of moving air that opposes propulsion.

• drag

• aerospace engineering

• rudder

• propeller