Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Guest Starring
AtomicMari: youtube.com/user/ATOMICMARI
iDubbbz: youtube.com/user/iDubbbzTV
Vsauce: youtube.com/user/Vsauce
Watch the Making Of: youtube.com/watch?v=lBTueM1oedc
Cocky Science Aviator Jake Roper (that’s me!) feels the NEED FOR SPEED as he struggles to overcome his arrogance and work as a team to take down the enemy while also flying head on into the deceptively complex concepts behind the physics of flight. Jake will be pushed to the limit while investigating what happens to the human body when subjected to extreme G-forces, intense acrobatic maneuvers, and breaking the sound barrier…without an airplane?
TOP GUN: MAVERICK IS IN THEATRES, DOLBY CINEMA, AND IMAX MAY 27, 2022
Top Gun is available for purchase: paramnt.us/TopGun86
(Click “Show More” for references)
0:00 Intro
2:11 Top Gun School
4:01 The Basics Of Flight
6:08 G-Force Training Mission
9:47 Hypoxia And Death
13:06 Supersonic Training Mission
15:30 Dogfight
17:00 Touch Down
ADDITIONAL LEARNING
• Newton’s Laws Of Motion
1) https://howthingsfly.si.edu/flight-dynamics/newtons-laws-motion
2) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton1.html
3) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton1g.html
4) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton2.html
• Basics Of Flight
1) faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak/media/07_phak_ch5.pdf
2) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/forces.html
3) nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Four_Forces_of_Flight.html
• Physics And Aerodynamics Of Volleyball
1) volleyballscience.weebly.com/volleyball-and-physics.html
2) arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/physics-holds-the-secret-to-volleyballs-highly-unpredictable-float-serve
• G-Forces And The Human Body
1) goflightmedicine.com/pulling-gs
2) journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.01191.2006
3) ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2012/00000083/00000008/art00010
4) sfu.ca/aerospacelab/research-areas/space-flight-physiology/human-centrifuges.html
• Supersonic Flight And Objects
1) nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-supersonic-flight-k4.html
2) https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/01/10/can-wind-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound/
3) https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q1/supersonic-pingpong-bazooka-blasts-balls-at-mach-1.23.html
4) livescience.com/23710-physics-supersonic-skydive.html
Watch 'The Science Behind Top Gun' Playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLydZ2Hrp_gPTtAStwwUCVjF5MqkVM8V_u
#topgun #topgunmaverick #science
Guest Starring
AtomicMari: youtube.com/user/ATOMICMARI
iDubbbz: youtube.com/user/iDubbbzTV
Vsauce: youtube.com/user/Vsauce
Watch the Making Of: youtube.com/watch?v=lBTueM1oedc
Cocky Science Aviator Jake Roper (that’s me!) feels the NEED FOR SPEED as he struggles to overcome his arrogance and work as a team to take down the enemy while also flying head on into the deceptively complex concepts behind the physics of flight. Jake will be pushed to the limit while investigating what happens to the human body when subjected to extreme G-forces, intense acrobatic maneuvers, and breaking the sound barrier…without an airplane?
TOP GUN: MAVERICK IS IN THEATRES, DOLBY CINEMA, AND IMAX MAY 27, 2022
Top Gun is available for purchase: paramnt.us/TopGun86
(Click “Show More” for references)
0:00 Intro
2:11 Top Gun School
4:01 The Basics Of Flight
6:08 G-Force Training Mission
9:47 Hypoxia And Death
13:06 Supersonic Training Mission
15:30 Dogfight
17:00 Touch Down
ADDITIONAL LEARNING
• Newton’s Laws Of Motion
1) https://howthingsfly.si.edu/flight-dynamics/newtons-laws-motion
2) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton1.html
3) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton1g.html
4) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/newton2.html
• Basics Of Flight
1) faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak/media/07_phak_ch5.pdf
2) grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/forces.html
3) nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Four_Forces_of_Flight.html
• Physics And Aerodynamics Of Volleyball
1) volleyballscience.weebly.com/volleyball-and-physics.html
2) arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/physics-holds-the-secret-to-volleyballs-highly-unpredictable-float-serve
• G-Forces And The Human Body
1) goflightmedicine.com/pulling-gs
2) journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.01191.2006
3) ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2012/00000083/00000008/art00010
4) sfu.ca/aerospacelab/research-areas/space-flight-physiology/human-centrifuges.html
• Supersonic Flight And Objects
1) nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-supersonic-flight-k4.html
2) https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/01/10/can-wind-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound/
3) https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q1/supersonic-pingpong-bazooka-blasts-balls-at-mach-1.23.html
4) livescience.com/23710-physics-supersonic-skydive.html
Watch 'The Science Behind Top Gun' Playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLydZ2Hrp_gPTtAStwwUCVjF5MqkVM8V_u
#topgun #topgunmaverick #science
