By viewing high-speed videos of raindrops hitting mosquitos, learn how insects are able to fly in the rain by calculating the impact forces of raindrops on flying mosquitoes.

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Concepts

conservation of mass, force, momentum, surface tension, terminal velocity, torque, stem

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Additional Tags

impact force, insect behavior, making approximations, mosquito, order of magnitude physics, scaling, newton's law of motion

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Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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