Wind speed is the speed in which the air moves relative to some reference point on the ground. If there was a case in which a day had absolutely no wind, the ground speed is equal to the wind speed. Of course this is highly unlikely to ever happen. This definition applies best to planes. When dealing with animals is a little different. To find the airspeed velocity of a bird, one must calculate the Strouhal number.
The Strouhal number is usually used in the calculation of speed of fish in water. In that case, it is the ratio of frequency of the tail moving and the forward speed of the animal. A man named Graham K. Taylor discovered the same principle can be applied to birds and other animals that can fly.
The frequency is the number of times the bird beats its wings a second and the amplitude is the distance the wing travels in one beat.
To get an approximate airspeed, Taylor said to invert the midpoint Strouhal number which is 0. This means that the airspeed about 3 times the product of the frequency and the amplitude. There is a very detailed blog on style. How fast does an unladen swallow fly? Asked by: Prof. Vance Rempel. Do swallows return to the same place every year? What is the unladen weight of a swallow? Are swallows good to have around? What is the difference between a sparrow and a swallow? How many times does a European swallow beat its wings?
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Take a look at the clip below to refresh your memory of that. First, we need to determine which bird to examine as best fits for those discussed in the movie. There is, in fact, a European swallow, but there is no swallow specifically named the African Swallow. However, there is a South African swallow and a West African swallow, which may be good fits when discussing an African swallow. However, there is almost no data recorded that can give us an indication of the airspeed of either type of African swallow.
Rather than make blind guesses about African swallow, it may be better to look into the capabilities of the European, or Barn, swallow, for which there is.
According to research from the Avian Demography Unit of the University of Capetown, the European swallow has an average length of If we use the information mentioned in the videos above, we would estimate that a European swallow flaps its wings 43 times every second in order to maintain the necessary airspeed velocity.
Examining research by zoologist C. Pennycuick, in a journal article entitled Predicting Wingbeat Frequency and Wavelength of Birds , we can find relevant data to the European swallow. This gram swallow was found to flap its wings about 12 times every second, with an amplitude of 20 cm each time. Strike one for Monty Python. Though, I guess we can give them a little bit of credit here, considering that the swallow being observed in this research wasn't exactly what King Arthur was talking about.
When we take the number of beats per second 12 and multiply it by the distance per beat.
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