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Hovering Helicopters!

by Stephen M. on Jun 2, 2009

EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to today’s guest writer, Stephen. ———- Helicopters are fascinating creatures. One of their distinguishing features is their ability to hover in place. This is essentially accomplished through a torque and force balance. For the forces we must look at Newton’s second law of motion: Notice the arrows on top of the force [...]