Rocket Trajectory

Trajectory and applied force both have very much too do with our rocket lab. Trajectory affects how far the rocket will get beacuse trajectory is a curved path of an object that has been fired or thrown through the air. This affects the rocket beacuse the angle of the rocket that is launched at is part of trajectory and the rocket was launched off of an angled platform so this affetced how high the rocket went before coming down. Another part of trajectory is how gravity affects the objects path of fight this is seen in the lab when the rocket loses all accelaration it stats to slow down then gravity brings the rocket down. This affects the lab beacuse if we where on a diffrent planet the gavity would be less and then it would fly further beacuse gravity is not pulling towards the earth. …show more content…
An applied force is an interaction of one object on another that causes the second object to accelerate or change velocity or direction.This is seen in the lab beacuse the water is so presureized that the water and air blasts out of the rocket causeing the rocket the go that direction and accelerate. This affects the lab beacuse with out the water and air forceing out of the bottom of the rocket the rocket would not go anywhere then beacuse the water and air are forceing agianst the rocket too. Applied forces also cause the rocket too change dircetion to beacuse the air resistance acting on the fins can cause the rocket to veer off beacuse the fins are not atteached and the wind forces the rocket that way. This is ture beacuse when there was some greater wind speeds the rocket would fly backward beacuse the air acts on it also beacuse if we where to remove wind and air resistance the rockets would fly a staright course. This proves that both trajectory and applied force are both varibles in the experment that cause the rockets to move the way they