What Physics Students Can Learn from the Wright Brothers

Autor/in	Page, Brian R.
Titel	What Physics Students Can Learn from the Wright Brothers
Quelle	In: Physics Teacher, 59 (2021) 5, S.340-344 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-921X
Schlagwörter	Physics; Air Transportation; Experiments; Engineering; Scientific Research; Aviation Technology; Science History; Experimenter Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physik; Erprobung; Maschinenbau; Flugtechnik; History of science; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Abstract	The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, are often depicted as lone geniuses, secretly assembling the first successful powered aircraft far from civilization at Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. There is a germ of truth in the popular story, but only a germ. The brothers succeeded while so many other experimenters failed not because they possessed superhuman intelligence, but rather because they approached the problem of powered flight as engineers, using a step-by-step methodology to tackle the many different challenges while at the same time carefully measuring and logging each test case. Still, this wasn't enough, and the brothers resorted to fundamental research in achieving their final breakthrough. Their approach to success remains a model of scientific research and applied technology, and is applicable today in the physics laboratory. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01