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Transcript for NASA Connect - Proportionality - Modeling the Future
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[Danica Mckellar:] Hi,
I am Danica Mckellar
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when I was your age I played
a character in Winnie Cooper
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on a television show
called 'The Wonder Years'.
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You may be wondering what an
actor like me knows about math
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and science, one fact
I love science so much
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that I measures mathematics
easier way.
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On today's episode of NASA Connect,
you will discover how ratios,
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proportions and mathematics are
found in nature, in our bodies
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and in things we create.
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We will also see how
in the near future,
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you may be taking drivers add
and flyers add at the same time.
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So prepare to take
off as host Van Hues
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and Jennifer Pulley forward you
to this episode of NASA Connect.
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[Jennifer:] Hey guys,
welcome to NASA Connect,
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the show that connects
you to the world of math,
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science, technology and NASA.
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He is Van Hues.
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[Van Hues:] And she
is Jennifer Pulley.
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We are your hosts
along with Norbert?
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He is going to help us take you
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to in other awesome
episode of NASA Connect.
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[Jennifer:] Right, every time
Norbert here is have your Q cards
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and your brain ready
to look for answers
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to the questions he
gives you and teachers.
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When Norbert appears with a remote
that's your Q to pass the video
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and think about the
problems he gives you.
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Got it.
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>> Oh yeah, I got it.
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[Van Hues:] Today we are
in City of North Carolina.
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This is where the Wright Brothers
took the very first control power
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flight in 1903 and guess what...
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[Jennifer:] What...
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[Van Hues:] They used
mathematics like ratios.
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>> What is the ratio?
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[Jennifer:] Good question.
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All ratio is a pair of numbers
that is use to make comparisons
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and ratios are everywhere.
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Get this, before the Wright
Brothers pull planes;
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they were experts in one of the
most revolutionary means of travel
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since the wheel, the bicycle.
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[Van Hues:] So in memory of the
Wright Brothers pre-flight days
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that used this bike as
an example of a ratio!
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[Jennifer:] Good idea Van.
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Let's say, we want to compare
the number of revolutions
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or complete circles that one
tire makes to the distance
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that the bike travels.
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Pretend this wheel measures seventy
six centimeters or thirty inches.
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By measuring the distance that the
wheel rolled after one revolution,
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you can set up a ratio.
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One revolution to two hundred
thirty nine centimeters.
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[Van Hues:] Right, when you
find ratios you are also
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using proportions.
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A proportion is a number
of sentence or equation
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that states the two
ratios are equal.
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How could you use
ratios and proportions
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to determine how far
you bike would travel
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if the wheel made five revolutions?
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[Jennifer:] Simple, set up
of proportion like this.
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One revolution to two hundred
thirty nine centimeters equals five
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revolutions to X which
is the unknown distance.
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Now, like cross multiplying,
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we can see that the wheel would
roll one thousand one hundred
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ninety five centimeters
in five revolutions.
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Notice, that the fraction
ratios are equivalent.
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Hey, here's another
form we have to try.
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If your bike wheel
makes one revolution
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and travels two hundred
thirty nine centimeters,
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how many revolutions
would your wheel make
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if you travel two thousand
three hundred fifty two point
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three inches?
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Be sure to watch your units.
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[Van Hues:] So now that you have
a better understanding of ratios
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and proportions, let's get
back to the Wright Brothers.
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>> How did mathematics in ratios
help the Wright Brothers test
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and design their glider?
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[Van Hues:] Before Fire-one the
Wright Brothers were done bicycles.
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As young man, Orville and Wilbur
started the bicycle manufacturing
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and repair company in
their home town of
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[inaudible] Ohio.
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The Wright Brothers
use the money they made
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to finance their interest
in aviation.
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In the winter of 1901 Orville and
Wilbur Wright used their knowledge
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of math to build the wind
tunnel in order they study how
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to control an aircraft.
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It was then that they realized
the importance of ratios.
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[Jennifer:] Right!
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The Wright brothers used
something call the aspect ratio,
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that is the ratio of the
wings linked to the wings
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with by increasing
the length of the wing
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and at the same time
decreasing the width of the wing.
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The Wright Brothers cut the drag
they experienced in the wind tunnel
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by half, immediately they began
designing a better working glider.
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[Van Hues:] In 1903, after adding a
rudder and engine and the propeller
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to the aircraft, the Wright
Brothers achieved the first self
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prepared flight of an airplane and
began the era of powered flight.
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>> Describe the
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[inaudible] transportations
since the early 1900.
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What is
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[inaudible].
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>> Hi, I am
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[inaudible] Williams, pilot
and air-traffic-controllers
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with the Federal Aviation
Administration.
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Back in 1903, there
is only one aircraft.
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Not much need for us to have
a traffic control system.
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However, by 1960 there are over
seventy eight thousand commercial
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and general aviation
aircraft and in ten years
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by the year 2010 we believed
there will be almost two hundred
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and twenty eight thousand.
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Air traffic is growing and growing.
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We anticipate by the year 2010
almost one billion people will be
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traveling by air.
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The air 2003 begin century
number two of aviation,
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I hope in ten years or so you
will be one of the visionary
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that one share my safe and
efficient flight by designing,
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building, maintaining,
controlling or flying the aircraft.
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The future aviation
is in your hands.
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>> You know
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[inaudible] Williams is right.
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Mathematical concepts
are everywhere
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and they help us explain
the world we live
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in using a system with numbers.
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For example, remember when
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[inaudible] used a bar graph to
explain the growth in the number
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of airplanes since the Wright
Brothers will give this.
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We can also create a graph to
show the growth of all types
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of transportation,
from cars, to planes,
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to jets, to future aircraft.
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Look closely at this craft
can you see a pattern?
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>> Patterns like the growth of
transportation are everywhere.
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You just have to look around?
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Speaking of patterns, a man by
the name of Fibonacci discovered
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of very famous pattern of
numbers a long time ago in Italy.
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This pattern of numbers is
called the Fibonacci Secretes
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and the ratio of certain numbers
in the sequence is so special,
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it's called the golden ratio.
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Hey, how would you
like to meet an expert
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on Fibonacci, he is also a poet.
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[Brad Brown:] Hi, everybody this
is Brad Brown, talking to you
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from the Math and poem at Virginia
tech in Blacksburg Virginia.
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The emporium is a large room
with over five hundred computers
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where students can come day
or night to learn about math
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and speaking of learning here
is a little words I have written
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about a man called Fibonacci.
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How many answers do we have
that numbers easily found
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for you all have two carets,
four grains and eight grades.
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Just double the previous round.
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But the family tree of the
honey-bee is not like any other.
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The girls good and bad
have a mom and dad.
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But each boy has only a mother.
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It's true each
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[inaudible] has mom alone but
each female has parents too.
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In addition you see she has grand
parents three, one fewer than me
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or you and six alive,
great grand parents five.
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That's even true for the
queen and next twice great
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that number is eight and of thrice
great she has thirty now she has
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asking us, don't like fuss to do
this calculation how many answers -
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does that she have
in every generation.
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So half to it folks, let's crack
no jokes don't stop for meals
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or for slumber, just work your
mind the answer you will find is a
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Fibonacci number and
now to help you on more
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about Fibonacci numbers
here is Jennifer.
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[Jennifer:] Before we begin student
activity lets know a little more
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about the golden ratio
and Fibonacci.
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Fibonacci was a thirtieth
century Italian Mathematician,
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who was studying a
rabbit problem Do you want
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to know how many rabbits he
will have at the end of the year
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if he started with only one
pair of new born rabbits.
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Fibonacci knew that new borns are
able to breed after one month,
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then every month after if
the conditions were right.
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He found that the sequence
one, one, two, three, five,
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eight, thirteen and so one.
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Demonstrated the total
number of rabbit pairs
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at the end of each months.
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So, at the end of first month
you have the original pair
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of new born rabbits.
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At the of the second month you
still have the original pair
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because it took a month through
them to become old enough to breed.
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At the end of the third
month you will have two pairs
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of rabbits the original pair
and their new born pair.
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At the end of fourth month,
you have the original pair,
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their first pair born in the third
month and their new born pair,
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born in the fourth month.
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Following the sequence at the end
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of month twelve you will have
one hundred forty four pairs
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of rabbits.
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Fibonacci and others soon
found the sequence occurring
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in many other things in nature by
finding the spirals of pine cones,
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pineapples and sunflower seed has,
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for example you can
find neighboring pairs
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of Fibonacci numbers.
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The way in which leaves
are arranged
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on the stem also displays
a Fibonacci relationship
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so did the spirals
down in the sea shops.
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Now Fibonacci wasn't the
only one who is fascinated
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with these numbers the ratio
obtained by successive turns
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in the sequence was fought
by the Ancient Egyptians
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and Greeks, but it is special.
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It was so pleasant that
they used this special ratio
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to design their pyramids,
their temples and buildings.
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You know the
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[inaudible] that's a great
example of what is come to be known
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as the golden ratio
or golden proportion.
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Here is the Fibonacci
sequence let's see
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if you can determine the operation
used and find the next four terms.
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One, one, two, three, five, eight,
thirteen if you guess twenty one,
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thirty four, fifty five and eighty
nine are the next four terms your
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are right how did you get it.
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The ratio of certain
pairs of numbers
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in the Fibonacci sequence is used
to describe things in nature one
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to one, one to two, two to three,
three to five, five to eight,
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eight to thirteen,
thirteen to twenty one.
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If you divide the
denominator of each ratio
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by its numerator the
results look like this.
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The ratios began to get close
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to the rounded number
one point six two.
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What if we divide the
small number in the pair
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by the large number well you
get point six two rounded.
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If something in nature can
be described using the ratios
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in the Fibonacci sequence well
that get set to be golden.
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For more Fibonacci fun let's
visit fair view elementary in
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[inaudible] Ohio and rose about
middle score in Springfield Ohio.
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These students are in the
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[inaudible] program.
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>> NASA Connect asked us to help
you learn this lesson there are
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many ways to divide the class up
to check with the Fibonacci ratio
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and objects you have collected.
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But we've decided to
have three groups.
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The first group will measure
natural objects first count the
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number of sides of the unpeeled
banana, write this number
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on the worksheet on the pineapple
count the number of squares
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into adjacent spirals.
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Are they adjacent numbers
in the Fibonacci sequence,
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count the segments of the half
great through it's the great
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through golden examine this pine
count for the number of spirals
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that got at the right and
compare that number to the number
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of spirals that go to the
left, look at the Daisy,
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compare the number of paddles
that grow in a clockwise direction
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to the number that grow in a
counter clockwise direction.
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Ensure Daisy golden now check
any other natural objects
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that you have brought to class.
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The second group uses
body measurements
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that approximate the golden ratio.
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Write the ratio of finger segments
and one finger to the number
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of fingers on one hand.
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Is your hand golden, now
measures each student's height
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and record the results
on the worksheet.
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Measure each student from the
top of their head to the top
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of the middle finger of the out
stretched arm, record the results.
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What is the ratio of the height
to the measure of the length
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from the top of the head to
the end of the out stretch arm?
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Does that approximate the
golden ratio measure the height
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of each student and enable
to floor height of each.
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Write the result as a ratio of body
height to enable to floor height
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as the result close to the golden
ratio measure each student arm
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length and finger tip to
the elbow, write the result
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as a ratio is it golden.
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Group three measures manmade
objects clarify the Fibonacci
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numbers by measuring
the length and width
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of an index card try
this with an ID card.
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Measure other objects in the
classroom or brought to class.
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When all groups finished with their
explorations they can summarize
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their findings and report
it to the rest of the class.
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Special thanks to our AISS student
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[inaudible] University
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[inaudible].
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Great job guys, after you
completed the activity
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on the golden ratio you should
analyze your observations
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and respond to the following.
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In four sentences describe the
activity you just completed.
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Was everything you examined
golden, how do you determine
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if an object is golden?
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Do you think that there is another
special ratio like the golden ratio
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that exists in nature, what?
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Teacher, check out our
NASA Connect website.
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>>: Hi, NASA engineers
using Fibonacci sequence
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and the golden ratio to research,
design and develop airplane.
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>>: When NASA engineers are
designing airplanes they want
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to be sure that all their
airplanes handle the same way.
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Its kind of like driving a
car or a truck whatever car
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or truck you drive should perform
the same way anyway NASA engineers
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have designed a new airplane with a
larger wing than a previous design.
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They have to use ratios to scale
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or size parts like the
ailerons to fit the new wing.
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Ailerons are the movable parts of
airplane wings that control role.
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If the ailerons are
not the correct size
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with the new wing size the plane
might not fly the way it should.
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So you see the golden ratio helps
designers determine the geometric
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relationship needed to keep
the plane flying the same.
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>>: Hey! Guys meet Bruce Hops;
he is an Aeronautical Engineer
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at NASA Langley Research
Center in Hampton Virginia.
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So, Bruce let us how
you worked on here NASA.
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[Bruce Hops:] Well is I have told
you our transportation demand
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in this country is so
beyond supply new century,
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the twenty-first century and we
have just got to figure out how
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to make more places available
to more people in less time
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and so we are working with
smaller airports, smaller aircraft
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that fly ever faster and
ever safer than before
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to meet this twenty-first
century demand.
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>>: You are telling me smaller
airplanes you mean like smaller
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like this smaller right here.
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How is that going to happen, Bruce?
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[Bruce Hops:] For many people
don't know that the ratio
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of the total number of
the airports in a country
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to the number that help
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[inaudible] Airlines Services.
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It is about ten to one and so we
can go ten times as many places
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and save time for people
if we can figure out how
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to use this smaller
airplane in smaller airports.
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I mean there are several ratios
that our craft designers used
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to first score themselves
the design of the airplane,
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wing loading for example is
where you take the whole way
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to the airplane and divide by the
wing area that you see out here.
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And that gives you a
sense of the relationship
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between the way the vehicle
to how much area supporting.
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Another ratio that's very useful
is the total lift efficiency
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or lift capability wing divided
by the way did the airplane
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and that tells you how efficient
our lifting device the airplane is
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and as it also tells you how
long the runway needs to be
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because it tells you how slowly
you can land the airplane,
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very important ratio.
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>>: Okay, so I guess
that you are saying is
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that smaller airplanes
means smaller runways.
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[Bruce Hops:] Much smaller
runways, you know big runways
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and big airports can
be ten thousand feet,
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twelve thousand feet,
fifteen thousand feet long and
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yet you can use a runway that's
only about two thousand feet
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by one fifth the length.
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>>: Okay, Bruce this plane
already exists obviously,
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I mean you fly this thing around.
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How are you and how is NASA going
to use an airplane like this
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to help travel in the future?
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[Bruce Hops:] The small
aircraft transportation system,
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which is using smaller aircrafts
and smaller airports as a means
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by which we can move more
people to more places.
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>>: And you are working on
this right now, at NASA.
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[Bruce Hops:] What we want to do is
that, make it possible for people
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to have another choice
for inter-city travel
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in the twenty-first century,
a bypass around her block
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and bypass around dead lock.
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If you want to be in those systems
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for other reason that's
fine we would like
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to give people alternatives.
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We are proposing to make
this smaller airport all
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across the country more accessible
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and virtually all weather
conditions with airplanes that are
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as easy to use as cars
and cost about same
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as a car trip for long trips.
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>>: And better small as this.
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[Bruce Hops:] While the airplanes
will be little bit bigger then the
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same you will be surprised
actually how big
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that seem one should get in,
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but those seem more like mini
vans and things like that.
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>> So, if you think about
one of the other ratios
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and proportion it's interesting
is how much power you have
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in airplane relative to the way to
the airplane you got power loading
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or thrust away ratio and the people
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at NASA's Glen Research
Centre, are working on how
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to get more efficiency
and more thrust
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at a lesser weight in engines.
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>>: This is like a little map
here, telling us how to go.
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>>: Its looks quite a trip.
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>>: Are we there yet.
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>>: Well experience, now we
find out when you navigate pull
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out the map and you just can't
look at your rudder flight figure
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out where you are starting from,
where you want go too and this kind
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of big mess you know
the more you got into it
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and than more involved something
strange and then pick over here
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and make sure that still on
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>>: Alright.
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>>: Put that way.
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>>: Now it's already
here in the computer.
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>>: Oh! It's all right here .
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>>: Absolutely, so we can
navigate we can see where we are,
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we can see what the weather is and
see what the traffic is or we see
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where we wanted to go and we can
also have all of the frequency,
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and the information
that was on that map
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that stored in the computer.
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>> And you have use the map.
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>> Push a button and pull
it up, that's the idea.
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>> Wow and you put all these
technologies into this airplane.
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>> Yeah, this is an
airplane that has many
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of the science technologies
that many more to come
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but this is sort of the grandfather
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[inaudible] airplane.
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So, Jennifer and Van what do you
say we button up and fly on over
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to the Research Travel Institute
and look at computerized stimulator
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where we can put some
of this highway
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in sky theory in that action.
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>> I love computers, lets do it.
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[Jennifer:] That's sound great.
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You know speaking of
computers did you know
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that Boeing 777 was
the first airplane ever
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to be designed completely using
a computer Am I right Bruce.
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[Bruce Hops:] That's right.
[00:20:47.609]
[Jennifer:] Yeah, they
used computer technology
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and they gave engineers immediate
feedback and eliminated the need
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for building expensive models.
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So while Bruce, Van and I head over
to the Research Triangle Institute.
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Why don't you go see
Dr. Shelly Kenrie
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and design an airplane
using your own computer.
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>> Many of you have been
passenger on airliner and I'm sure
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at least all of you have seen
one flying across the sky.
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May be you have wondered what goes
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into designing one well this shows
online activity gives you the
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opportunity to model your
own future passenger plan
[00:21:19.469]
by choosing different
wings, tails, engines
[00:21:22.549]
and fuselage layouts you can
put together a complete airplane
[00:21:26.169]
and see if it will fly.
[00:21:28.029]
All of this right on
your computer screen,
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any five computer analysis you
have quick feedback on the effect
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of each decision you make.
[00:21:35.989]
The program you use is called
Airplane Design Workshop
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and it will give you and example
how artificial intelligence may be
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used now and then the
future to assist engineers
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in the modeling and design process.
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Let's go to Central
Elementary School
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in Pleasant Grove, Utah where Mr.
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[inaudible] will guide
you through this activity.
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>> Hello, I'm
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[inaudible] the Technology
Specialist
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for Central Elementary School
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and we are doing some problem
based education using desktop,
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Aero's, aircraft design program
all these students are pretending
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they are design engineers
for an Aeronautical Firm.
[00:22:10.789]
They have a contract with
airline to design airplane
[00:22:13.599]
and if they design the airplane
playing properly they will receive
[00:22:17.109]
the contract or purchase these
airplanes and construction.
[00:22:20.409]
If not they loose contract and
the company will be bankrupt,
[00:22:23.679]
but the little less
in economics too.
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>> NASA Connect asked us to show
you the aircraft design workshop,
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developed by Desktop
Aeronautics Incorporated.
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The main challenge
with this activity is
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to see how fast you can fly and
still meet the design requirements.
[00:22:41.509]
First we go to the NASA
Connect website and click
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on the Norbert Slab Band to
link to the online activity.
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At the top of the screen you
will see a line of pictures click
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on the picture of the
wing on the left side.
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Here you choose the suit
size and aspect ratio
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of your wings okay now choose the
next button which gives the size,
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area and aspect ratio
choices where you take.
[00:23:08.439]
The next button over let you
choose the type object and amount
[00:23:12.609]
of thrust and number and placement
of engines for your airplane.
[00:23:16.529]
Now select the seating arrangement,
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this button let's you select
the speed, altitude and amount
[00:23:22.559]
of fuel for your plane.
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Now you pick a final
destination, all trips will start
[00:23:27.609]
at Washington D.C. with all
these choices made its time
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to have the computer program
analyze your selection.
[00:23:35.279]
Click on the last button
to evaluate you airplane.
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You will find out if you are ready
to fly if not you can go back
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to make other choices.
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The software program will suggest
to how you may improve your design.
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[Jennifer:] Thanks for
watching NASA connect
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from Central Elementary.
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Bye.
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>> We hope you will
try your hand with this
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on line activity the program
office in which foundation
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for Thoms solving
reflection and analysis.
[00:24:03.459]
See what design situation
that you might create
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and then use a software
to solve that.
[00:24:09.209]
[Jennifer:] looks little
familiar its like Langley.
[00:24:12.149]
>> Well it should the
Fibonacci ratio we are worrying
[00:24:15.059]
about is also used by
simulation engineers
[00:24:17.359]
to recreate a very natural life
like appearance for grass, trees,
[00:24:21.239]
buildings, skies, clouds.
[00:24:23.759]
[Jennifer:] That's really cool.
[00:24:24.319]
This is like big video game.
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What is the purpose of this?
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>> Well this is a simulator.
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A measurement
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[inaudible] what would you like
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if flying a airplane were
lot like playing videogame.
[00:24:33.899]
[Jennifer:] I think
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[inaudible].
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>> Well that's what we want to
happen and so what we do is we try
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out all of the different
kinds of images
[00:24:41.559]
that give you highway in the sky.
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Follow I think Jennifer and
Van should give this a try.
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[Jennifer:] Oh!
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We got some confidence in us Bruce.
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Alright lets start it up.
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>> There you go.
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Now when you get up to
about eighty miles an hour,
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you are going to gently pull back.
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[Jennifer:] This is so weird.
[00:25:00.809]
>> Okay now pull that.
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[Jennifer:]
[00:25:01.449]
[inaudible]
[00:25:01.449]
>> And you just left the ground.
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[Jennifer:] And then
what happens in the sky.
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>> And there's your
highway in the sky.
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Now you can steer at the wheel.
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[Jennifer:] Okay with the
[00:25:12.169]
[inaudible].
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Oh Bruce this is so neat.
[00:25:13.759]
>> And this is the bottom line,
it is lying the floor of highway
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and the top of it's is the roof of
the highway now its like driving
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through a tunnel if you
will no signs to distract
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and that tells you where you
need to go and keeps you clear
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of everything that would
be hazardous to traffic,
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bad weather, obstacles, mountains.
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[Jennifer:] And NASA
is on this pathway.
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>>: No one this is
your own pathway.
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Your computer created this for
you because you told the computer
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where you are going,
where you wanted to go.
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[Jennifer:] Oh, Bruce this is
[00:25:44.419]
so easy I mean this is
great I will be able
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to fly through like this
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[inaudible].
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>>: Well, we hope
anybody to do this
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with a little bit practice
on simulator you say.
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[Jennifer:] You said anybody I
mean anybody like even like Van
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or anybody.
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>>: I just got my drivers
license I could do this.
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[Jennifer:] Right, why
you will take a look?
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>>: Sorry, sorry I got it.
[00:26:04.579]
[Jennifer:] Okay, great
well Van tries to take of.
[00:26:09.709]
We'd like to take everyone
you have make this episode
[00:26:14.809]
of NASA Connect possible
than keep you own
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[inaudible]
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>> Sorry.
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[Jennifer:] on the road I mean
on the highway in the sky.
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You know Van and I would love to
hear from you with your comments,
[00:26:24.609]
your questions and
your suggestions.
[00:26:26.089]
So write us at NASA Connect,
NASA Langley Research Center,
[00:26:29.849]
Mail Star four hundred, Hampton
Virginia, 23681 or email us
[00:26:34.849]
at [email protected].
[00:26:39.949]
Hey teachers if you would
like a video tape copy
[00:26:42.239]
of this NASA Connect show and
the educators guide lesson plans
[00:26:46.129]
contact your local NASA
Educator Research Center
[00:26:49.399]
or call the NASA Central Operation
of Resources for educators.
[00:26:53.709]
All this information
and more is located
[00:26:55.849]
on the NASA Connect website.
[00:26:58.069]
The job there the
people are pretty level.
[00:26:59.819]
All right okay for the NASA Connect
series I am Jennifer Pulley.
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[Van Hughes:] And I'm Van Hughes.
[00:27:04.249]
[Jennifer:] Van can
have some view please.
[00:27:06.879]
[Van Hughes:] Sorry.
[00:27:07.399]
[Jennifer:] Eyes on the highway
in the sky and we are closing
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[00:27:18.019]
in on Richard trying to get there.
[00:27:22.589]
>>: Good question a
ratio is a good question.
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>>: This is where the Wright
brothers flew their very
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[inaudible].
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>>: What is the ratio
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>> [inaudible]
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>> Oh no comment.
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>> Got it
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>> Okay.
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>> Got it this is
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[inaudible].
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>>: Oh, Jennifer, Van we
just say we got enough.
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>> Control, power, fly in 1903
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and guess what they used
mathematics like ratios
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[inaudible].
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>>: NASA Connect showed
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[inaudible] you have
to do this lesson.
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>>: Old ratio is a pair of
numbers that is used to make -
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Now we fly all over to
the Research Institute
[00:28:11.209]
[inaudible]
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[Danica Mckellar:] Thank you
for watching NASA Connect.
[00:28:18.729]
Be sure to check out my web
site at danicamckellar.com
[00:28:23.849]
where I will answer all your
math questions and many more.
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