How can slope be used in aircrafts?
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slope of what? give more details
if you mean slope of a graph, then that's used in everything
the slope of the graph of the distance traveled gives the relative speed of the aircraft,
the slope of the relative speed gives the acceleration,
there are many many more applications, these are just simple ones
Discrete matrix problems can prove a Duck and a 747 have the same aerodynamic properties...
A "Slope" is a good introduction to del based operations...
the best example for slope and aviation is to use the required descent slope when an aircraft is landing. You can use 7 degrees as an average angle as measured from the horizontal as a good slope. For example, when an aircraft is set up on final approach and he descent angle is 7 degrees, how far from touchdown (horizntal distance) is the aircraft if his altitude is 1000 feet?
Remember that slope is rise over run, so for 7 degrees, the rise over run is the same as tangent of 7 degrees or about 8.144 horizontal to 1 vertical.
so the slope is 1/8.144 or .12278
you can write a straight line equation
y = mx + b
y = 1000 feet
m = .12278
b = 0 if you assume that the point of touchdown is the vertex of your coordinate system
then you have 1000 = .12278x
x = 8144 feet or approximately 1.54 miles from touchdown.
I hope this gives you ideas
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