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Lecture #4
PREVIOUSLY COVERED
TOPICS
Preliminary Thoughts on Aerospace Design
Specifications (Specs) and Standards
System Integration
Forces acting on an Aircraft
The Nature of Aerodynamic Forces
Lift and Drag Coefficients
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Why should we study properties of
atmosphere?
Ideal Gas Law
Variation of Temperature with Altitude
Variation of Pressure with Altitude
Variation of Density with Altitude
Tables of Standard Atmosphere
Why should we study
Atmospheric Properties
Engineers design flight vehicles, turbine engines and
rockets that will operate at various altitudes.
They can not design these unless the atmospheric
characteristics are not known.
For example, from last lecture,
We can not design a vehicle that will operate
satisfactorily and generate the required lift
coefficient C
L
until we know the density of the
atmosphere, .
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Variation of with T when T varies linearly
From the previous slide, in regions where temperature varies
linearly, we get:
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