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Check your knowledge! Take our fun quiz for the Science Laws for Flight Section of the Tennis Chapter of our textbook! Follow the instructions and then click on the "Check it!" button for each question.

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Intermediate Activities: Science Laws for Flight
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1. The perfect gas law establishes the relationship between the pressure, density, and temperature of a gas at any instant in time or space. (Check the correct answer.)
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2. Air is treated as a perfect gas, even though it is a mixture of gases; it is mostly _________. (Check the correct answer.)
oxygen
nitrogen
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3. Engineers regularly use the perfect gas law to compute air flow properties. (Check the correct answer.)
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False
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4. Daniel Bernoulli discovered how velocity and pressure change in a fluid. Bernoulli's theory was vital in designing wings to make flight possible. (Check the correct answer.)
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5. Sir Isaac Newton developed three laws of physics. These laws help explain air and space flight. (Check the correct answer.)
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