Bill Nye the Science Guy - 01: Flight 1/3

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It's Bill Nye the Science Guy! In this episode, Bill explores the science behind flight. Animals have done it for millions of years, yet man has only mastered it within the last century. Flight utilizes Bernoulli’s Principle, which tells us that the faster a fluid, like air, travels, the lower its pressure. A wing is shaped in such a way that air is forced to travel a longer distance over the top in the same amount of time, meaning it is forced to travel faster. This faster air creates decreased pressure above the wing, which pushes the wing up with a force we call lift.

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