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Real time solar wind data from NASA's wind spacecraft

Data from the solar wind.

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http://www.sel.noaa.gov/ace/

Wind Power

Have a look inside a wind turbine to see how it generates electricity.

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http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter16.html

Capture the Wind

A lesson plan for younger pupils. Objective: wind is moving air. This activity is from the book "Early themes, weather".

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http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/sc970818b.htm

LTP Glenn Learning Technologies Project - Wind Tunnel Web pages.

This site is a comprehensive guide to wind tunnels, their history and design. It includes experimental details and designs.

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http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/windtunnel.html

Airplane In Wind

The cross-country navigation of an aircraft involves the vector addition of relative velocities since the resultant ground speed is the vector sum of the airspeed and the wind velocity.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/airpw.html#c1

Allstar Network - Making a wind vane

description of a very simple wind vane.

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http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Experiment11.htm

The Sun

In the following `Trip through the Sun' you'll see flames on the Sun larger than ten earths, winds going 1000 mph, and you'll see how the earth eventually will be scorched by the dying Sun. The ...

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http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/kaft.htm

The Java Virtual Wind Tunnel

The interactive Java Virtual Wind Tunnel is a prototype applet which uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods to simulate the flow of air over a two dimensional object.

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http://raphael.mit.edu:80/Java/