{"id":7394,"date":"2024-02-20T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2024-02-25T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:06:40","slug":"4-forces-in-steady-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/4-forces-in-steady-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"4 forces in steady flight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ref Chapter 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: sum of 4 forces is always zero, provided that it is a steady flight!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steady flight? -i.e unaccelerated status!<\/p>\n<p>Based on <strong>Newton&#8217;s 3rd law<\/strong> (every action or force there is an equal, but opposite, reactionor force.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, amount (magnitude) of 4 forces not exactly same!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weight cancel out by Lift ;<\/p>\n<p>Drag cancel out by Thrust;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Straight, level, unaccelarated flight, lift (or weight) forces are generally greater than thrust (or drag)!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, in steady flight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all upward components equals all downward components<\/li>\n<li>all forward components equals all backward components<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"embed-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1hOeB5gpnm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-4-forces\/\">What&#8217;s 4 forces?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;What&#8217;s 4 forces?&#8221; &#8212; Tommy&#039;s Diaries\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-4-forces\/embed\/#?secret=ENCGfCmpAe#?secret=1hOeB5gpnm\" data-secret=\"1hOeB5gpnm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref Chapter 5 Ans: sum of 4 forces is always zero, provided that it is a steady flight! &nbsp; Steady flight? -i.e unaccelerated status! Based on Newton&#8217;s 3rd law (every action or force there is an equal, but opposite, reactionor force.) However, amount (magnitude) of 4 forces not exactly same! Weight cancel out by Lift<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/4-forces-in-steady-flight\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-bak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}