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Streamlining (technology)
Shaping a body so that it offers the least resistance when travelling through a medium such as air or water. Aircraft, for example, must be carefully streamlined to reduce air resistance, or drag.
In order to reduce the air resistance of an object such as a car, its shape is designed in such a way that it will reduce drag and allow air to flow smoothly over the car. High-speed aircraft must have swept-back wings, supersonic aircraft a sharp nose and narrow body.
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air resistance
balanced forces
Boyle's law
distance
distance–time graph
elasticity (physics)
force
friction
gravity
Hooke's law
mass (physics)
moment of a force
motion
newton
Newton's laws of motion
pressure
resultant force
scalar quantity
speed (physics)
speed–time graph
stopping distance
streamlining (technology)
terminal velocity
turning effect of a force
vector quantity
velocity
weight
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