• Make a Paper Airplane, following whichever design you would like!

• Throw your paper Airplane at least 3 times, recording each throw via video (if you cannot do this yourself at home, come into school and get help doing so!):

1. Soft/Slow Throw

2. Medium/Regular Throw

3. Hard/Fast Throw

• After getting one good video of each type of throw, analyze the forces that went into play for each throw:

  • Create at least 5 Free Body Diagrams in total to describe the following scenarios (not hand-drawn; use PowerPoint, Draw.io, or other):

    • The starting position of all throws (same for each throw, only one FBD needed here)

    • The in-flight motion of the soft/slow throw (may require more than one FBD, if motion of flight is irregular)

    • The in-flight motion of the medium/regular throw (may require more than one FBD, if motion of flight is irregular)

    • The in-flight motion of the hard/fast throw (may require more than one FBD, if motion of flight is irregular)

    • The ending position of all throws (same for each throw, only one FBD needed here)

  • In these FBD's, be specific as to exactly which types of forces are acting on the paper airplane

• Once done, add documentation to your previously-created "Intro to Statics" Project page on your portfolio website, showing/describing (via: text, pictures, gifs, videos, etc.):

  • Your paper airplane

  • Each of the 3 throws & comparisons between them, including relevant FBD's

  • What you did/learned