The Physics Behind RC Planes

This lesson plan focuses on the following standards :
HS.P3U2.7 Use mathematics and computational thinking to explain how Newton’s laws are used in engineering and technologies to create products to serve human ends. Interactions between any two objects can cause changes in one or both of them. An understanding of the forces between objects is important for describing how their motions change, as well as for predicting stability or instability in systems at any scale.
HS.P3U2.7 Use mathematics and computational thinking to explain how Newton’s laws are used in engineering and technologies to create products to serve human ends.
At the end of this lesson students are expected to:
1. Use mathematics and computational thinking to explain how Newton’s laws are used in engineering and technologies to create products to serve human ends..
2. Describe the Interactions between any two objects that can cause changes in one or both of them. An understanding of the forces between objects is important for describing how their motions change, as well as for predicting stability or instability in systems at any scale.
3. Use various materials to create an RC plane, then redesign the RC plane as needed to demonstrate Newton’s law of motion and Forces acting on an RC plane.
4. Collaborate and communicate effectively with their peers to complete an engineering design challenge.
5. Describe the possible causes of a variety types of successful and unsuccessful RC plane flights( effect) and identify which part of the RC plane system maybe interacting that may lead to an unsuccessful flight and successful flight.