How do animals move in air or water?

Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics of Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 24
Janusz Piechna

For millions of years nature has not invented the rotary bearing. Animals can only make swinging motion with their limbs. Because of these limitations they have developed various, unknown in technical solutions, methods of obtaining aerodynamic lift and driving force enabling them to move freely in air or water.

The lecture presents, in the visual form (graphics and short films), information about the ways in which birds, insects and bats fly and whales and fish swim.

Length: 45 min
Dates:
Saturday, 27 September 2008 11:00
Saturday, 27 September 2008 12:00

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