6.055J | Spring 2008 | Undergraduate

The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering

Readings

Flight (Scaling)

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Chapter excerpted from the course notes on using conservation to estimate the energy required to generate lift, then minimize the lift and drag contributions to the energy to find the minimum-energy way to make a trip

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