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An airplane has a mass of 1.60 × 104 kg, and each wing has an area of 40.0 m2. During level flight, the pressure on the lower wing surface is 7.00 × 104 Pa. (a) Suppose the lift on the airplane were due to a pressure difference alone. Determine the pressure on the upper wing surface. (b) More realistically, a significant part of the lift is due to deflection of air downward by the wing. Does the inclusion of this force mean that the pressure in part (a) is higher or lower? Explain.

          An airplane has a mass of 1.60 × 104 kg, and each wing has an area of 40.0 m2. During level flight, the pressure on the lower wing surface is 7.00 × 104 Pa. (a) Suppose the lift on the airplane were due to a pressure difference alone. Determine the pressure on the upper wing surface. (b) More realistically, a significant part of the lift is due to deflection of air downward by the wing. Does the inclusion of this force mean that the pressure in part (a) is higher or lower? Explain.
        
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An airplane has a mass of 1.60 × 104 kg, and each wing has an area of 40.0 m2. During level flight, the pressure on the lower wing surface is 7.00 × 104 Pa. (a) Suppose the lift on the airplane were due to a pressure difference alone. Determine the pressure on the upper wing surface. (b) More realistically, a significant part of the lift is due to deflection of air downward by the wing. Does the inclusion of this force mean that the pressure in part (a) is higher or lower? Explain.
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00:01 All right, so let's say an airplane has a mass of 1 .6 times 10 to the fourth kilograms, and each wing, we're told, has an area of 40 square meters for the plane.
00:13 We're told that during a level flight, the pressure on the lower surface is 70 ,000 pascals.
00:22 And so we want to know if the lift force is all that supports the weight of the plane, or sorry, the lift force is only due to pressure differences.
00:31 The pressure on the upper wing surface.
00:33 So what we want is like the pressure difference between them to be equal to the weight of the plane divided by the total surface area, which we have two wings, so it'll be divided by two...
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