Rough Draft Format
Biomechanics of Flight
Insects of the A. Jewell Schock Museum of Natural History
1. Introduce your audio tour and the Museum
2. Give the common name and species names for the specimen and then use
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Rough Draft Format
Biomechanics of Flight
Insects of the A. Jewell Schock Museum of Natural History
1. Introduce your audio tour and the Museum
2. Give the common name and species names for the specimen and then use only the common name after that (if possible). You can use Wikipedia to get the common names and family names for your specimens.
3. Give the scientific and common name for the family for your specimens (hint, most family names will end with –idae. You can use Wikipedia to get the common names and family names for your specimens.
4. Tell the listener what type of insect your specimen is (beetle or grasshopper or fly, etc.) and briefly describe what they type of specimens looks like. For example, some beetles look like little tanks.
5. What is its general habitat and method of feeding? You can use Wikipedia to get the common names and family names for your specimens.
6. General information biomechanics of flight from (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/physics.html) (Be able to define lift, drag, weight, and thrust using general terms).
7. Describe the size and shape of the insect and how that relates to the insect’s flight.
8. Describe the shape of the wings and how this shape may relate to flight. Do the wings beat independently of each other or are they linked in some way?
9. How does the insect generate flight using its flight muscles (be able to describe synchronous and asynchronous flight in general terms)?
10. How does the insect fly? Your description should make use of concepts such as airfoils, lift, supination and pronation, wing rotation.
11. Compare flight to one other type of insect.
12. Relate insect flight efficiency to that of airplanes, jets, rockets, or helicopters and include a numerical relation (for example, is insect flight 50 times more efficient than the flight that for jets.
13. Application of those biomechanics in robotics or aeronautics.
Create a bibliography for your final script.
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