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Part 2 – Choosing Glider Designs for Testing (Individual Work)In part 2 of the project, each member of the team will choose two competition glider designs that they will individually build and test as potential choices for the glider designs to enter into the competition.TasksResearch and decide on two glider designs – one designed for long-distance, and another designed for a long duration of the flight. Your objective is to choose two gliders that will, independently, do very well in each category.1. In choosing the designs, keep the following restrictions in mind:Each glider’s materials will be restricted to a single, complete sheet of 8.5 x 11-inch standard weight copy paper (20 lb bond / standard A4 format – mass = 4.5 grams). The glider will be modified by folding only – no addition of other materials, ripping, gluing, or cutting. You are not restricted in any way on the sources used to find potential glider designs, but here are two sources: Amazing Paper Planes – Basic Dart DesignsFold N’ Fly2. Before making a final decision on your two choices, do some preliminary testing of each design. Build one or two test gliders according to the instructions, and do some test flights to get a rough idea of how it performs. a) Experiment with different thrust methods for each of the test glider designs for achieving the objective (distance or duration of flight). HINT: review the videos of the world record glider flights in Paper Airplane Project Part 1 on the course website. b) If one or both designs perform poorly in this preliminary testing, choose a different design. c) Repeat step 2. until you’ve found promising choices for each of the two required design types.

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3. Formulate a hypothesis* for each of your chosen designs. Include predictions for how each of the four main forces that act on aircraft will affect the motion of the glider in allowing it to achieve its objective (distance or duration). * You may want to review the definition of a hypothesis from our lesson on the scientific method in Module 14. Create a document that includes: a) the name of each glider design) a reference (URL) that contains an image of each glider and the instructions for building it) the hypothesis for each design (see 3. above)d) A description for how to thrust should be imparted to each glider design to maximize its desired performance (distance or duration) in competition.5. Submit your document within Paper Airplane Project Part 2 on the course website. Looking ahead: in part 3 of the project, you will individually build and test your chosen glider designs. In part 4 (the final part) of the project, you will submit a summary of your testing results for each glider design to the team, and the team will be based on the results of all team member testing, collectively decide on the two designs that will be used in the competition.