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Hypothesis: Airfoil
shaped blades fly higher than
flat blades.
Principle: Wind
turbine blades are airfoil shaped because
it takes less power to turn an airfoil shaped blade
than it
does to turn a flat blade.
Experiment: Place
the airfoil model to a safe place where
it can can be turned on and ran without
interference.
- Measure how high the
airfoil shaped wing flies.
- Measure how high the
flat wing flies.
Conclusions: Have
students do calculations and discuss
what they learned.
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