The purpose of this project is to design an \"optimal\" paper airplane using a 2

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The purpose of this project is to design an "optimal" paper airplane using a 2-factor factorial experiment (2*) approach. Students wil initially perform a 1/4 fractional factorial experiment on a paper airplane design that contains 5 design parameters/factors, each design parameter containing two possible levels. Using the interaction effects from the fractional factorial experiment, students will select the best combination of design parameters to create the "optimal" paper airplane. Experiments will be performed to assess the performance of this "optimal" design 25 Your objective is to maximize the flight timeldistance. This will be assessed using maximum average distance traveled by the airplane in four trials

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2^k experiment involves an experiment which involves one or two factors, each having discrete values and the experiment is performed which takes all possible combination of values for the above-mentioned factors. Thus, a fractional experiment is simply where the possible number of combinations is too high and thus some are excluded. In the given case, as 1/4 fraction has to be used, meaning we will discard 75% of possible combinations.

I have taken the distance the plane goes when thrown as the sole factor underlying a design of a paper plane, thus every plane design can be checked on this factor and the following matrix can be designed.

PAPER AIRPLANE DISTANCE (meters)

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PAPER AIRPLANE DISTANCE (meters)

Design 1 Design 2 Design 3 Design 4 Design5 Throw 1 Throw 2 Throw 3 Throw 4 Throw 5 Adjusted Average

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