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Wind Power

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

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
The Sun

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
LTP Glenn Learning Technologies Project - Wind Tunnel Web pages.

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
Wind Tunnels

Wind Tunnels

Part of the NASA website, includes detailed information (and illustrations) on the history, development and use of wind tunnels, and explains how to creat your own.

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http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/windtunnel.html
Airplane In Wind

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
The Java Virtual Wind Tunnel

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/
Solar Wind

Solar Wind

Explanation of this phenomenon and links to related areas.

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