1 / 11

Planetary Olympics Exhibition

Planetary Olympics Exhibition. The Collective Universal Gravitation The Planets Extra Features . General Workings of the Exhibition. The Gravitational Field Simulates various gravitational strengths of each planet The Planets and Respective Sports

scott
Download Presentation

Planetary Olympics Exhibition

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Planetary Olympics Exhibition The Collective Universal Gravitation The Planets Extra Features

  2. General Workings of the Exhibition • The Gravitational Field • Simulates various gravitational strengths of each planet • The Planets and Respective Sports • Simulate various sports as if they were played under environmental factors found on corresponding planet • Extra Features • Other exhibits demonstrating interesting facts or related activities to supplement exhibition theme

  3. The Gravitational Field—Field of Gravitations • Gravitational field strength vary between planets (universal law of gravitation) • Environmental Factor: Gravitational force experienced by objects determine their weights • Effect: (equipment-wise) less weight = less energy expended, modified projectile motion

  4. The Gravitational Field– Exhibit Design • Demonstration: • Visitors try lifting sports balls of different masses that represent the same ball subjected to different gravitation • Compare throwing an object with low air resistance with one of high air resistance to simulate varied accelerations • Diagram goes here

  5. The Venusbird—Venus • Terrestrial and has similar size and composition as Earth • Notable Environmental Conditions: • Hot surface temperature, i.e. exceeds 400°C • High density atmosphere (due to CO2) • Slightly lower gravitational field intensity (~90% Earth) • Higher air viscosity

  6. The Venusbird—Badminton • Racket sport with shuttlecock as projectile • Little wind toleration makes Venus surface ideal • Shaped to produce great drag & skewed parabolic path  Highly influenced by atmospheric conditions • Higher air density  slower shuttlecock (buoyancy and drag) • Higher air viscosity  slower shuttlecock • Lower gravitational pull  slower shuttlecock drop • Overall: Aide players due to less demand on reaction time • Concepts: projectile motion & aerodynamics

  7. The Venusbird – Exhibit Design • Display board: • Planetary conditions and effect on shuttlecock (& more) • Demonstration: • Transparent displays in which the visitor launches shuttlecocks and observe trajectory on Earth vs. Venus • Fluids of varied viscosity through which the visitor tries to drag objects to experience shuttlecock drag • Diagram is here

  8. Galing Gas Giants • All Gas Giants share characteristic high winds and lack of solid surface, hence designated sports take advantage of these features • Jupiter & Saturn  Windsurfing • Uranus  Hang-Gliding • Neptune  Gliding

  9. The Glider of Neptune – Neptune • Gas giant with thick atmosphere, liquid surface, and high winds/storms • Notable Environmental Conditions: • Highest wind speeds in solar system (i.e. Up to 2000 km/h) • Great difference in temperature between core and outer cloud tops generate complex weather

  10. The Glider of Neptune -- Gliding • Air sport involving glider (i.e. unpowered aircraft); competes for distance and speed • Higher net air speed  more lift • Greater temperature gradient = more thermals  more lift • Unstable weather  turbulent ride • Overall: greater lift  gains higher altitude, stays longer in air, covers greater distance • Concepts: aerodynamic force – lift

  11. The Glider of Neptune – Exhibit Design • Display Board: • Planetary conditions and effect on glider • Demonstration: • Live-sized sailplane model, in which visitors sit, simulate glider movement and Neptune sight on screens • Mini gliders behaviour when subjected to various wind conditions (from fans) manipulated by visitors • Diagram goes here

More Related