Flight and Space

An airplane manufacturer continues to hear from airlines that the landing gear indicator keeps flashing off and on, confusing the flight crew. Which step of the design process should the designers of the plane revisit?

• Ask

• Explore

• Plan

• Create

• Improve

A push or pull on an object.

• Force

• Gravity

• Unbalanced forces

• Friction

An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force.

• Newton’s First Law

• Newton’s Third Law

• Newton’s Second Law

• Newton’s Law

Acceleration is the rate at which an object______, slows down, or changes direction.

Newton’s Third Law

• Acceleration is produced when a force acts on an object. The greater the mass of the object, the greater the amount of force needed to accelerate the object.

• An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force

• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

• There is no third law

This picture is showing which of the following?

• Lift

• Drag

• Weight

• Thrust

This picture is showing which of the following?

• Lift

• Drag

• Thrust

• Weight

The picture represents which of the following?

• Lift

• Drag

• Thrust

• Weight

• Lift

• Drag

• Thrust

• Weight

Name and explain the three terms that describe how an airplane moves in three dimensions.

• Up, Down, Left,Right

• Yaw,Brick,Roll

• Yaw,up,down

• Yaw,Pitch,Roll