Maths | Statistics | Wingspan | Lift | Aerodynamics

 LI: to use statistical and scientific methods to study the effects of the wingspan and area on lift

This week, we made graphs using the wingspan and distance to find out more about the lift. We had different wingspan measurements, flew the planes and measured the distance. We found out more about lift by how the different size of the wingspan can impact the lift and flight distance.

The type of graph we made was called scatter chart. We first threw our planes and had to measure the distance and we needed to include the measurements in data form so we can use it to create our graph.

Some mistakes have been made, like how all our planes are all pretty consistent and quality but our 14 cm paper plane is different result so we might have thrown differently from the other planes.

We drew a paper graph in our maths books and drew a trend-line. A trend-line is a line that shows the difference of the results. The interpretation is that when the wingspan is bigger then the further the plane will go.