核心畫面

Hold your flat hand out of a moving car window and then tilt it. Air pushes, lifts and drags. Everything this word covers lives in that push: the rules behind it, and how well one particular shape deals with it. One use names the study of the push; the other names how a single object stands up to it.

可以想成把手伸出行進中的車窗外,再把手掌轉個角度。空氣會推你、抬你、拖住你。這個字的兩個用法都活在那股推力裡。一個指更多收起可以想成把手伸出行進中的車窗外,再把手掌轉個角度。空氣會推你、抬你、拖住你。這個字的兩個用法都活在那股推力裡。一個指研究這股推力的學問,另一個指某個東西面對這股推力時表現得好不好。

From the word’s history

Built from aero- (air, from Ancient Greek aer) plus dynamics (from Ancient Greek dunamis, power or force): the force of air.

這個字由 aero-(空氣,來自古希臘文 ᾱ̓ήρ)加上 dynamics(力與運動,來自古希臘文 δύναμις「力量」)組成。字面就是「空氣的力」,兩個用法都是從這股力量延伸出去的。

Wiktionary etymology tree supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:775122452): Ancient Greek aer > aero-; Ancient Greek dunamis > dynamikos > French dynamique > English dynamic.

From the picture

某個東西面對推力的表現

把學科量出來的結果,直接掛回那台車、那架飛機身上,就成了這一層。研究的是同一股空氣,只是焦點從原理換成一個具體的東西。

noun · C1

The qualities of a particular object, such as a car, a plane or a helmet, that decide how smoothly it moves through the air.

風阻表現

Also in this word

noun · C1

The scientific study of how air moves around objects, and of how that moving air lifts, pushes and slows down things such as planes, cars and balls.

空氣動力學