Executive Summary

Supersonic efficiency is a problem in today’s evolving world. The people of our world want to go faster and pay less money for this speed. To achieve this, one must find the most efficient object that decreases drag and optimizes lift. Doing this minimizes the use of fuel and energy and therefore brings cost to a minimum with it. This is why we have decided to use this subject as our choice of interest in this challenge. We aspire to bring the costs of the average American to as low as possible. These costs are why we decided to focus on drag as the major factor of efficiency. We have used the variables of object shapes and sizes against the factors of air density, velocity and altitude to simulate the drag.

We used the factors of drag against four different shapes: a cube, a cylinder, a cone and a rectangular prism. We developed our program with the use of formulas pertaining to the proper variables to achieve the optimum drag figure for each object. We ran the program with altitude changes every thousand feet up to 20,000 feet. The radius of the cone and cylinder was increased by one foot up to five feet. The cube and prism were increased by fives from five to twenty-five. The factors of air density were changed in relation to altitude.




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