How Does a Wind Vane Work and How to Make One
A wind vane is a device that indicates wind direction, according to Ambient Weather. Wind vanes, which are also called weather vanes.
How does a weather vane work?
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A wind vane works by wind blowing against a large surface to measure the wind direction. A wind vane has a front end and a tail end. The tail end is the larger of the two areas and causes the front end to point in the direction that the wind is blowing. A wind vane is typically mounted on top of a post or a roof. The device rotates freely and points to the direction the wind is blowing from, according to Growing Seasons. Some wind vanes include fixed letters as points of reference to indicate the four compass directions.
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Weather Vanes measure the wind direction. The pretty easy process to explain and I think it should be a very easy concept. So weather vanes contain an arrow or some sort of device that’s going to point in the direction and there’s two main features of this arrow. First the way it’s evenly distributed on each side of this central axis that allows for an even rotation of your arrow. The second main feature is that there’s difference in the surface area between the two sides. There’s one side where there is low surface area and another side on the end of the arrow or some other feature that usually has a lot surface area. When the wind blows it catches this large surface area and pushes it until the large surface area is directly in the path of the wind and you’re is pointing towards wind is coming from and then all you have to do is you read the direction that the small arrow is pointing at and that is the wind direction. And this is how the wind vane work basically the wind just pushes the large surface to area side around until it can’t push it any more.
How to make a wind vane
You will need:
2 paper plates
Scissors
Poster boards
Plastic straw
Straight pin
Pencil with new eraser
Modeling clay
Glue
Compass
OPTIONAL
* Crayons * Styrofoam plate
How does a weather vane work?
Hard
A wind vane works by wind blowing against a large surface to measure the wind direction. A wind vane has a front end and a tail end. The tail end is the larger of the two areas and causes the front end to point in the direction that the wind is blowing. A wind vane is typically mounted on top of a post or a roof. The device rotates freely and points to the direction the wind is blowing from, according to Growing Seasons. Some wind vanes include fixed letters as points of reference to indicate the four compass directions.
Easy
Weather Vanes measure the wind direction. The pretty easy process to explain and I think it should be a very easy concept. So weather vanes contain an arrow or some sort of device that’s going to point in the direction and there’s two main features of this arrow. First the way it’s evenly distributed on each side of this central axis that allows for an even rotation of your arrow. The second main feature is that there’s difference in the surface area between the two sides. There’s one side where there is low surface area and another side on the end of the arrow or some other feature that usually has a lot surface area. When the wind blows it catches this large surface area and pushes it until the large surface area is directly in the path of the wind and you’re is pointing towards wind is coming from and then all you have to do is you read the direction that the small arrow is pointing at and that is the wind direction. And this is how the wind vane work basically the wind just pushes the large surface to area side around until it can’t push it any more.
How to make a wind vane
You will need:
2 paper plates
Scissors
Poster boards
Plastic straw
Straight pin
Pencil with new eraser
Modeling clay
Glue
Compass
OPTIONAL
* Crayons * Styrofoam plate