Could You Survive TOP GUN?

Cocky Science Aviator Jake Roper (that’s me!) feels the NEED FOR SPEED as he struggles to overcome his arrogance and work as a team to take down the enemy while also flying head on into the deceptively complex concepts behind the physics of flight. Jake will be pushed to the limit while investigating what happens to the human body when subjected to extreme G-forces, intense acrobatic maneuvers, and breaking the sound barrier…without an airplane?

Watch the behind-the-scenes: https://youtu.be/lBTueM1oedc

Guest Starring
AtomicMari: https://www.youtube.com/user/ATOMICMARI
iDubbbz: https://www.youtube.com/user/iDubbbzTV
Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce

0:00 Introduction
4:00 The basics of flight
6:47 Pulling extreme G’s
13:33 Breaking the sound barrier
15:27 Wrap Up

ADDITIONAL LEARNING

• Newton’s Laws Of Motion
1) https://howthingsfly.si.edu/flight-dynamics/newtons-laws-motion
2) https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton1.html
3) https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton1g.html
4) https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton2.html


• Basics Of Flight
1) https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak/media/07_phak_ch5.pdf
2) https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/forces.html
3) https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Four_Forces_of_Flight.html

• Physics And Aerodynamics Of Volleyball
1) https://volleyballscience.weebly.com/volleyball-and-physics.html
2) https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/physics-holds-the-secret-to-volleyballs-highly-unpredictable-float-serve/


• G-Forces And The Human Body
1) https://goflightmedicine.com/pulling-gs/
2) https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.01191.2006
3) https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2012/00000083/00000008/art00010
4) https://www.sfu.ca/aerospacelab/research-areas/space-flight-physiology/human-centrifuges.html


• Supersonic Flight And Objects
1) https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-supersonic-flight-k4.html
2) https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/01/10/can-wind-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound/
3) https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q1/supersonic-pingpong-bazooka-blasts-balls-at-mach-1.23.html
4) https://www.livescience.com/23710-physics-supersonic-skydive.html