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Automobile Hydraulic Lift
A brief explanation of how hydraulic lifts work with greater detail further up the page.
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How Can You Lift Four Times Your Weight
How Can You Lift Four Times Your Weight?
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Airfoil
Introduction to how airfoils aid lift and the aerodynamics surrounding this.
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Allstar Airfoil Experiment 1
Simple description of basic Bernoulli lift experiments - including animations.
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Dimensional Kinematics
Twelve short mechanics problems, some with hints to help the user towards a solution, all with worked solutions. Includes the classic on jumping up in a falling lift.
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Taking Flight
A worksheet and lesson plan for younger pupils. Objective: During gliding the weight of an air craft is balanced by the lift generated from air flowing over the wings.
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Lift of a rotating cylinder
A NASA page examining how a rotating cylinder is lifted using the magnus effect. Includes a java simulator so you can experiment yourself.
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Boomerang
The returning trajectory of a boomerang involves the aerodynamic lift of its airfoil shape plus the gyroscopic precession associated with its rapid spin. The precession redirects the airfoil so that ...
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