Paper Plane Flight Simulation

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For literacy, we have been doing some flight research and conducting an experiment. For my experiment, I thought that the lower the angles of the flaps, that it would make it stabilize the plane. Here is my research and experiment. See Ya!!!

Paper Plane Experiment

Questions:

• Does the angle of the flaps affect the way that the plane flies?

Research Summary:

There are four components to flight, and there is lift, drag, weight and thrust. With drag, it is pulling the plane or the non-aerodynamic parts of the plane. If you have a lot of drag, then you will need more power or thrust. 

Thrust is the engines that are making the plane go, turn and fly. Now with the aircraft, the more weight or drag you add on, the more thrust or power. 

Weight is how substantial something is, and in this case, how heavy the plane is. With pressure, you can’t have lots of weight, so you have to use more of the lightweight materials. If it is too heavy, the plane will just drop out of the sky. Gravity also doesn’t help the weight of the aircraft as it is pulling the plane down. 

Lift is kind of like thrust, and it holds the plane up. It makes the plane go up and down while the thrust makes it go forward or left and right

Hypothesis

With the flaps angled down, I think that it will glide way better as a normal plane angled the flaps down it will stabilize more while it will just have to come to an end.

Materials:

• Paper

• Measuring Tape

• Protractor

Procedure:

1. Follow the video to create one simple paper plane with an a4 piece of paper

2. Measure 2 cm on the back of the plane and cut some slits in the middle to create some flaps and bend down and measure flaps with the protractor with 2 degrees

3. Do the same procedure on another wing.

4. Mark you are going to throw and under shelter or where there is no wind

5. Layout a measuring tape where we are throwing from and where there is no wind

6. Now throw from shoulder height and see how far it goes where you are measuring from

7. Measure from where thrown to the front of the plane.

8. Retrieve the aircraft and increase the angle of the flaps by 2 degrees.

9. Repeat steps 6, 7, 8, four times for accurate results

10. Find the average flight distance from all flights

11. Also, see what angle flew better from the others

Observations/Results:

Tests	Test 1	Test 2	Test 3	Test 4	Test 5	Average
Flaps Angle	2 Degrees	4 Degrees	6 Degrees	8 Degrees	10 Degrees	6
Distance	3.3m	5.5m	3.2m	9.5m	7.4m	5.78

Discussion:

For the experiment, the independent variables that I chose worked very well and came out with outstanding results. As you can see from the graph above, the 2 and 6 degrees didn’t work as planned while the others. 

With the shorter distances, they were doing big loops as it was very windy and raining a bit so that was holding the plane down. With the rain though, it was making the plane soggier so that was the more added weight which requires more thrust that I didn’t have while throwing. 

With the more angled flaps, they worked way better as even with added weight, it was way more stabilised. It was just flying perfectly straight until more water stacked onto the plane and then it flopped to the floor. 

Conclusion:

In conclusion, the more angled the flaps, they worked well together but the weather didn’t help the plane soar through the air. It just shows that the slightest change in the wings can either work or make it crash.

Samoan Virtual Classroom

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For Wednesdays, we have been learning Samoan for a while. We have been learning a lot of different categories like the alphabet and numbers. Here is a virtual classroom just click on the links and on the photos to take you to places. 

Capillary Action Science Report

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For literacy, we have been learning about capillary action. We had to conduct an experiment where we would try 3 different liquids with food colouring in it and then see how far up the liquid would go up the veins. Here is my report and see ya.

Capillary Action

Questions:

• To the plants take in the water straight away when it comes into contact or does it wait

• How do the plants take in the vitamin d from the sun

Research Summary:

Capillary action is very interesting as we use straws to suck water or whatever up, plants do pretty much the same thing. The plants use cohesion as it can make the water go up when you would think that gravity would be pulling it down. 

Adhesion is when something is the ability to stick to something and choose how sticky it is. With adhesion, a water molecule is trying to get up a wall, and it needs the other particle to get up that wall as the molecules are stronger together. 

Surface tension it the other word in capillary action. If you see a leaf floating on the water, and you push the edge down, the whole leaf completely sinks, and the leaf is no longer floating on the water.

Hypothesis

I think that the coloured water will go up the celery stalk faster than the other liquids eg: white vinegar and sprite (lemonade).

Materials:

• Beakers

• Food Colouring

• Sprite

• White Vinegar

• Water

Procedure:

1. Colour the liquids with food colouring in your measuring beaker

2. Set a 2-minute timer and place the celery into the water

3. Once the timer has finished, record the height of the coloured veins and also record what colour the veins are. Repeat this sequence two more times so the total time is 6 minutes

4. After 6-minutes, chop the end of the celery that has not been in the liquid and chop it until you see colour

5. Measure the final vein and record your results

Observations/Results:

Climbing	2 Minutes	4 Minutes	6 Minutes	Colour	2 Minutes	4 Minutes	6 Minutes
Water Climb	0.5cm	1cm	3.5cm	Water Colour	Red	Red	Red
Vinegar Climb	1cm	1cm	1cm	Vinegar Colour	Red	Red	Red
Sprite Climb	2cm	1cm	1cm	Sprite Colour	Red	Red	Red

Discussion:

For the sprite experiment, the sprite did not climb up the veins very far as that porous. It only went up a couple of centimetres. It was very cool though to see it come up the veins. 

For the 2nd liquid, the water went way better as the results beat all of the others and came up that veins way higher than the other liquids. I think the reason why the water was better because it is more natural than the sprite. 

The vinegar experiment went pretty well even though the vinegar tasted terrible. It climbed not very high but it looked way cooler than all of the others.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, it didn’t turn out as I expected but it was still pretty cool when it climbed up the celery veins. Maybe next time we could use paper and see how high that climbs.

Capillary Questions

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