Transcript The Study of Flying Seeds - New Providence School District
The Study of Flying Seeds
Koki MIZUI Assei SANZEN
Motivation We chose this topic because we are interested in flying things.
Now, air planes fly in the sky but they consume a large amount of fuel.
The seeds of Alsomitra macrocarpa have wings and they can fly very far.
They don't need their own force to move.
About Alsomitra Macrocarpa big fruit thin feather
Experiment We prepared some models from styrofoam.
We named them: Ks, Ms, and As (s means styrofoam) We dropped each model 10 times from 2.45m high.
How to drop
Type ”a” Falling Large ; Flying Small ; Falling
Type ”b” Falling
Type ”c” Falling
Type ”d” Falling
Type ”E” Flying
Type ”F” Flying
Type ”G” Flying
Type ”h” Falling
Type ” j ”Falling
Result 1 N; 7% h; 18% G; 14% F; 23% c; 1% d; 3% E, 34% Large ; Flying Small ; Falling G h j N a b c d E F
Result 2 Ks a b h j n f g c d e 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 5 2.0% 10 4.0% 96 38.4% 66 26.4% 20 8.0% 42 16.8% 0 0.0% 11 4.4% 250 100% Ms a b h j n f g c d e 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 7 11.7% 5 8.3% 28 46.7% 8 13.3% 0 0.0% 12 20.0% 60 100% h j n f g c d e As a b 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 13 43.3% 6 20.0% 1 3.3% 10 33.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 30 100%
Consideration ① We can classify these models under two types.
Model K & A → Model M → Straight flying Type “ Wave flying Type “
” ” ② We should consider how to keep these models ; if they change their shape , their way of flying will change.
Hopes ① We want to find what changes the way of flying between Type” e ” and Type” g ”.
② We want to find the relationship between the biological and physical mechanisms of these seeds.