Ski lift

After being at school for seven hours, I put on my boots and headed to the ski lift as I looked at the snow glow in the cold February sun. As I waited in the line, John was grabbing ice balls the size of my hand, while attempting to throw them at my back. As Jack left his station, the smell of weed stenched across the entire ski area. Not even caring about looking at my lift ticket,I easily got on the lift. I tried to pick up a snow ball as the lift came up and pushed me on its cold, rusty seats. Getting off the ski lift, I never thought anything was going to happen to me. After getting off I turned hard right onto the wooded glades at the ski area. My poles were clipping the trees I was passing by. I loved skiing though the glades and…

I nervously walked to the ski lifts with my cousins in a heavy red coat and black gloves. When I tried breathing, a cloud of white came out. I kept trying to calm my fired up nerves with breathing techniques. Try as I might, I couldn’t get my nerves to calm down. It was like my nerves were on fire and that fire couldn’t be put out. When we finally got to the ski lifts, my legs suddenly felt as if they had been weighed down. The closer the ski lift came, the heavier my legs were. I started to…

school both Thursday and Friday. We did go to the college and took a tour of the campus on Thursday which I greatly enjoyed, it is beautiful out there and at elevation there is very little humidity. The true intention of the trip, as important as the college visit was, was to go to Breckenridge Resort and spend the weekend snowboarding. A couple of my dad's friends were also going and we were going to share their timeshare. Breck is one of the largest and highest Ski Resorts in both America and…

I began to make my way out of the ski lodge. My family and I had just finished eating lunch in the ski lodge and I was getting ready to hit the last few slopes before I called it a day. It had been many years since I had last spent time in Colorado, my old home. I was ecstatic I had the opportunity to visit during the winter so I could once again experience one of my favorite activities of skiing. Shortly after attending my family reunion, my family made their way up to Monarch Mountain to spend…

model that is typically used for sizing by traditional methods. The wing box odel mainly consists of Shell and Beam elements representing skin and stringers/stiffeners, respectively. The whole wing model with its major substructures (centre, inner and outer wing) is given in Fig. 4. Combining wing box with fuselage and empennage FE models results in a WAM of approximately 250,000 degrees of freedom. A finite element model common to the stress, aero elastics and the MDO group is used. This FE…

Kishan Patel Section: 008 Pattern: Falling velocity and the dispersal ability of a glider seed varies with its surface area. • Hypothesis 1: Increase in surface area of the seeds decreases their falling velocity, due to greater air resistance o Prediction: Seeds with the higher surface area will have a decreased falling velocity. o Reasoning: The greater the surface area of a seed, the more air resistance it experiences and thereby slowing its fall.  Analytical Approach: scatterplot,…

I joined Professor Dr. Md. Mashud’s CFD group and started developing my skill on the application of ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM as simulation tools. Finally, I decided to use ANSYS Fluent for my research work on “Numerical Study of Flow Past a Marine Rudder”. During my research, I faced the problem with the stall angle at around 16 degree angle of attack of the flow. At this angle of attack of the flow, the increase of lift force on NACA 0012 airfoil section stopped suddenly and after that, lift…

The four forces of flight are the main reason why planes fly and how they are able to glide through the air majestically. Each force of flight helps to guide the airplane to its destination by helping it withstand gravity and pressure. Lift is one of the four forces, lift is an upward force that is created by the movement of air above and below an airplane wing. Lift helps balance out the weight of the plane for it to be able to withstand gravity. Lift's air flows faster above the wing and…

Procedures How was the experiment carried out to answer the problem? Day 1 - Determining Flight Factors On the first day we discussed as a class what variables could affect the flight path of the balloon. This list included anything from the placement of the balloon in the slingshot to an innocent bird flying by while the balloon is in the air. Each factor was then sorted into a category of either a control variable or an act of god. From the list of control factors, we selected the mass of…

A turning point is something that changes either your character (who you are), how you live your life, or both. Downhill skiing has been a turning point for me in my life. To truly understand the joy of skiing, you must feel the connections to everything around you. From your body to the skis, from the skis to the snow and ice, from the icy snow to the ground, you must feel and connect through all of it. That is when you can finally understand the freedom gliding through and on the snow brings.…