Greetings to all my classmates, for this module I want to focus on what concerns us this week, the bases
and foundations of dynamics, for a few centuries now, Newton was able to define in three easy-to-
understand laws, a phenomenon that years It had been intended to be analyzed before, but it was
Newton, with his intelligence and dedication, who managed to materialize it into statements that are
currently the basis of different branches, such as aviation.
Newton's laws have served as a basis for the design and operation of airplanes. They are laws that have
been studied since the Wright Brothers applied these principles to give the world a new way of
transporting and that are currently possible, thereby providing all of them. the advantages it brings.
Now, Newton's laws are three: the law of inertia, the fundamental law of dynamics and the law of action
and reaction. Three laws that are the fundamental basis of the study of dynamics, which is the branch of
physics that studies movement but this time, understanding the causes that originate it, that is, the
forces that act on certain bodies.
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In principle, we have Newton's first law, this law says that an object is at rest in a movement with
constant speed until a force is capable of changing that state, that is, moving it or changing its speed,
that is, accelerating it. . At the time, the brothers had to understand inertia to be able to understand
how they would overcome air resistance and the force generated by the Earth's gravity in order to
overcome it and create lift, achieving the first controlled flight in 1903.
On the other hand, Newton's second law links the necessary force, the mass and the acceleration
acquired by a body, mathematically it says that the force is equal to the product of the mass and the
acceleration, which if we interpret it implies that the more acceleration, more is the force that must be
applied to a certain body, also that the more mass, the more force is needed to accelerate, and that if
the same force is applied to a mass, if it is very large the acceleration will be less but if the mass is
smaller, the acceleration will be greater. This is a fundamental key for the people who design airplanes
because keeping a ship in the air is a feat that only physics can achieve, from light airplanes to fighter
planes as well as colossal machines that cross the skies, with this It is known what force is necessary to
apply to which plane so that it can take flight. It is also worth noting that Newton's second law is
responsible for the design of the wings of any aircraft, because the materials play with it, the weight it
must have and how it should break the resistance with the air to gain lift in it.
Finally we have the third law which speaks of the law of action and reaction, this states that whenever a
force acts, there will be another in a completely opposite direction with the same magnitude and is
manifested in the interaction of the thrust force that they give engines with the resistance of the air,
even during flight there are four basic forces: lift and weight or thrust and air resistance.
References:
Deters, Robert & Broughton, Benjamin & Selig, Michael. (2004). A Retrospective: Development of
Simulation Models for the 1903 and 1905 Wright Flyers. 10.2514/6.2004-211.
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