An airbus has ground speed mini. It calculates the current wind compared to the tower wind and changes the approach speed to maintain a constant energy level with reference to the ground.
It works quite well in ordinary circumstances. It's a right pain in the backside in gusty strong wind conditions. Particularly if you're high and turning into a strong headwind on final.
As for physics, mallards and flaps. If you don't have a lot of experience, you have a lot of money and you buy an aeroplane which requires some experience, but lots of ongoing recurrency training - the result is you'll probably make a spectacle of yourself one way or another.