Great! And that is perfect considering my experiment entails varying the angle of attack to see the effects. Thanks go guiding my thinking process as I'm only a junior in high school with half a year of physics behind me.
Yeah that makes sense I realize the tough subject I'm getting into here. What about testing for the force of drag at different velocities with all other variables known (with the exception of Cd) and rearranging the equation to solve for Cd. Would plugging in the numbers in that manner yield a...
I think I was ambiguous in my last post. What I meant to ask was if in the drag equation you need to know Cd, how can you find this out without knowing Fd? It's almost like a contradiction:You need Cd to solve Fd, but you can't find Cd without knowing Fd. It's frustrating me to say the least.
First of all thanks for replying!
Alright (these match up to your responses):
-I realize kg is mass and am frankly embarrassed by this rudimentary mistake.
-I also realize force/mass=acceleration and I meant at a given time as acceleration*time=velocity.This was originally brash and illogical...
While I understand this is a basic question, I am a beginner with regard to fluid dynamics etc. To start, say you have a propulsion system capable of X Newtons and a weight of Y kg. I realize max speed occurs at the point at which the force of drag is equal to the force of acceleration, and the...