Aerodynamics 101

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An helpful introduction

Airfoil -- Bartosz Ciechanowski

We’ll find out how the shape and the orientation of the airfoil helps airplanes remain airborne. We’ll also learn about the behavior and properties of air and other flowing matter. In the demonstration below, you can see a fluid flowing around a gray cube. Using the slider to change just one property of this substance, we can end up with vastly different effects on the liveliness of that flow:

With helpful animations with slider controls. It covers Brownian motion, relative velocity and cars before moving on to airfoils.