An airplane with weight W and total wing span b flies horizontally at a constant speed v.

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An airplane with weight W and total wing span b flies horizontally at a constant speed v. Use the airplane as a reference frame; that is, consider the airplane to be motionless and the air to flow past it with speed v. Suppose that a cylinder of air with diameter b is deflected downward by the wing (the cross section of the cylinder is the dashed circle in in the figure). Show that the angle through which the cylinder stream is deflected (called the downwash angle) is determined by the formula sinθ =4W/(πb2pv2) where p is the mass density of the air.
An airplane with weight W and total wing span b
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073398242

11th edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston Jr., David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell, Brian Self

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