What is the difference between a race car and an air plane on a scientific level?

Question

Thanks everyone for ur answers, k so far i have foils, cost, speed , generating heat..is there anything im forgetting?

Answer 1

a formula car is basically an upside down airplane.
if the foils were turned the other way the car would fly not well but it would at least flip.
an air plane a formula race car turned upside down. the foils direct the air down and provide lift.
the other way foils up the car is forced down to the ground by the wind.
the foils are the wing like objects on the car most often you will see a big one stuck on the back of some car on the street that is
almost certainly just a cosmetic thing but the idea is the spoiler or foil helps direct the air up or down
in a car we want to keep it on the road so we point them down so suction is created and the car is held down by the air
you should look at a pic of a formula race car.

Answer 2

Not propulsion; either can be powered by piston engine or jet engine.

An airplane has foils (wings). When foils move through the air, the air lifts the foils (and of course the thing that holds them together, which in most cases is a tube-shaped structure due to its aerodynamic design).

On a race car, there may be foils, by they are generally inverted so as to have the air force the foil downward rather than upward. Street cars, don't have foils that are obvious, but parts of the car (look at the grill) may be shaped like foils to help this effect.

On a hydrofoil, which is a boat that is designed to ride on TOP of the water rather than in it, the foils are designed to be lifted by water rushing by (or moving through water at high speed).

Answer 3

The modern automobile has something on the order of 5 thousand parts. The modern commercial airliner has on the order of 5 Million parts. The complexity is the most significant difference I perceive.
The normal penalty for an automobile ceasing to function properly is that someone has to walk. The normal penalty for an airplane ceasing to function properly is the death of a large number of people. For this reason there is a significantly greater effort to ensure that even the failure of a significant number of components in an airplane does not cause the airplane to fail to perform. The most striking example is the amount of damage an airplane can sustain and still fly its crew and passengers home. Airplanes travel at much higher speeds than race cars. The current generation of race cars have maximum speeds on the order of 200 miles per hour. Most commercial airplanes cruise at about 600 miles per hour.
The land speed record is close to the speed of sound(about 700 miles per hour). The SR71 Blackbird flies at about 3000 miles per hour. Because of the material properties of the skin of a car if it traveled at the speed of the SR71, the car would melt and burn.

Answer 4

There are several major differences on a scientific level.
1. Energy source. Race car uses gasoline. Plane uses kerosene.
2. Matter phase of functionality. Race car have to be in contact with a solid matter to move but it can not move in the absence of such a contact. Plane can.
3. Social interactions difference. To operate a plain, one needs a different license from that needed to operate a race car.
4. Semantic difference. "Race Car" is spelled quite differently from "Plane".

Answer 5

Wings. Wings=lift

Answer 6

The aeroplane has aerofoils to lift it off the ground

The car has a spoiler to force it back on to the ground

Answer 7

Propulsion

Answer 8

the most basic difference is: an air plane flys, a race car doen't

Answer 9

Race cars are not capable of controlled flight

Answer 10

One generates lift (the airplane), one avoids it (the car)