Are You Smarter Than A Rocket Scientist?

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United States Con Hathy
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Does a crosswind affect the distance a golf ball travels down the fairway? Does it affect the fuel burnt by a plane? Yes, and yes. I was in an aircraft dynamics class a year ago and developed a simulation to prove the first question was true, however, almost half of my classmates got the problem wrong despite writing their own simulations. How could so many 3rd-year aerospace engineering students disagree on a simple simulation problem?

Video Music: "Lone Wolf" by Dan Lebowitz
Outro Music: "Blast" from Bensound.com

(0:00) - The crosswind question
(1:01) - Basic equation
(1:38) - Two ways to calculate Drag
(2:29) - The source of the error
(3:10) - What the students did wrong
(4:40) - How to fix the simulation
(5:27) - But HOW does it affect distance?
(5:43) - Flying in a crosswind
(7:15) - Outro



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