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A scaled-down model is used because direct full-scale testing is impractical or too costly. The speaker gives an example of an airplane company wanting to study a large-scale wing.

Conditions: Full-scale testing is impractical or too costly; A smaller representative model can be tested experimentally; Information from the model must be mapped back to the real case

A scaled-down model is used because direct full-scale testing is impractical or too costly. The speaker gives an example of an airplane company wanting to study a large-scale wing.

Conditions: Full-scale testing is impractical or too costly; A smaller representative model can be tested experimentally; Information from the model must be mapped back to the real case