Module 5- Real-World Physics Discussion

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1 Class, Paragraph 1: Describe the physics concepts/topics you have chosen to discuss from this week's module, including, as appropriate, a reference to this week's readings on the topics, terminology with definitions, units, conventions, etc. The concept I have chosen for this week’s topic is not an “aha” moment for me because my meteorology course covered a similar, if not the same, topic. However, my topic will be over convection, specifically, how does convection effect the world around us. “convection in Earths atmosphere is a major cause of clouds, wind, thunderstorms, and other meteorological phenomena” (Ostdiek & Bord, 2018). Convection creates a lot of the blessings and curses of aviation and that is why I chose to talk about it. Paragraph 2: Summarize one or more impacts of the physics concepts to everyday life or aviation. Convection is the reason for a ton of aviation related topics, but for this section I am going to focus on wind. In my first discussion post, I spoke about how tail wind vs head wind can effect your ground speed, and thus make your flight shorter or longer. Here I want to focus on why this occurs. Land has a significantly lower specific heat than water, so it heats up and cools down much faster. Due to this natural occurrence, when the land gets hot, the heat rises, and gets replaced by the cooler air from over the water. This causes the clouds to move seaward with the wind during the day, and landward during the night. This is important in aviation, because pilots need to know what to expect from the wind when flying, especially when doing low level flights around ocean areas. Imagine the Navy’s Blue Angels when they do their beach flights. I can guarantee they discussed the wind coming from the shore vs from the ocean, because it determines how aviators fly in the most basic manner. Paragraph 3: Either: (i) provide a real example, e.g., from an article or documented report of the aviation impact of this physics concept, or, (ii) give "your take" on the relevance and importance of this topic from your own perspective, by providing personal points of view or related experiences. My personal take on convection comes from years of flying Army personnel airdrop missions. We plan our missions to fly in formation, because we need to get a mass amount of people on the drop zone at once. However, we have to be cautious of the time of day and heat index when deciding how far apart each plane will be. This is all because of convection and how it effects the jumpers. Sometimes, jumpers will exit, their chutes will open, and they will be falling like normal. Other times, they will randomly float back up any given number of feat because they catch a rising pocket of hot air the literally turns them into a balloon for a couple of seconds. Overall, convection is an important concept for the world and for aviation. Without a good understanding of how it works, it could turn an exiting exercise into a very sad day very quickly. References Ostdiek, J. V., & Bord, J. D. (2018). Inquiry into physics (8 th edition). Cengage Learning.

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