The Bottle Rockets

of bottle rockets can be controlled by a multitude of factors. To understand these factors, mathematics can show us how they interact and how they affect performance. Water Bottle Rockets are mainly used for educational purposes in schools. They are used to explore basic aerodynamics and physics. Water rockets demonstrate many different forces such as weight, thrust, lift, and drag. Basic parts of a common bottle rocket include a nose cone, fins, a base, and a launcher used to launch the rocket. Rocket propulsion started showing up in history around 400 B.C. when a Greek by the name of Archytas used steam to propel a model pigeon (About Water Rockets). The first “conventional” rocket was created during the Song Dynasty in China in the 13th century. Small amounts of gunpowder were attached to small sticks and set off, making the first “fireworks” (About Water Rockets). The first water bottle rocket was created in 1930 by Professor Jean LeBot in France. He used a champagne bottle partially filled with water and compressed air from a bicycle tire pump to launch the rocket (About Water Rockets). Since the bottle was made out of glass, it would smash upon impact.…

Rockets are a very important aspect to the world, for they help in making huge discoveries in science and astronomy. Expensive materials, such as aluminum, titanium, and nickel alloy, help make a sturdy rocket. For the bottle rocket, my partner, Maren Cheney, and I used the following materials: 2 plastic 2-liter bottles, office folder paper, clear duct tape, yarn, 2 sponges, and cotton. The payload of the rocket is the object(s) being carried throughout the flight. While the payload of real…

Building bottle rockets can be a fun and learning experience, as many students at UCAS found out. There were many things to test, and many interesting aspects of the rocket. Three main features of the “Mission to Mars” are how to construct the rocket, rocket performance, and physics of the rocket. When these items are viewed, it is evident that students can see the effects of physics in real life problems. And by doing so become more intelligent as teenagers want to learn more, and have fun…

Aim: To use a neutralization reaction to propel a model rocket. Hypothesis: That the neutralization reaction between the bicarbonate of soda and the vinegar will produce a gas, which build up enough pressure to launch the bottle rocket. Materials: Vinegar, bicarbonate of soda (NaHCO3) Equipment: Plastic Bottle, Wooden Block, Nail, Cork, Duct Tape. Method: 1. Nailed a cork to plank of wood as a base for the rocket. 2. Wrapped tape around cork so that it fitted the neck of the bottle. 3. Put two…

Personal Write up For this lab, bottle rockets were to be made by the materials of duct tape, a tennis ball, cardboard, and a liter bottle. Using water as fuel, the rocket that is constructed was launched at the pressure of eighty PSI. The objective of this lab was to build the rocket efficient enough to launch at a range of two hundred to three hundred feet by calculating different variables. The independent variables of this lab were the shape and mass of the rocket, the angle degree the…

For the bottle rocket Terminator, there were three main test objectives. The variables to be tested where the fuel amount for the rocket, the angle of launch, and the nose shape of the rocket. The first test objective was to decide which nose for the rocket would fly better; a pointed cone nose, or a rounded nose. To test this, the rocket was initially made with a rounded nose; after the other two optimum objectives were filled, the nose was modified into a cone nose to test which was more…

I needed to build a water rocket that would be aerodynamic, light, and have the ability to glide down to elongate flight time. I started out researching different bottle rocket designs to find what would work best. While researching, I found that having a slimmer bottle on top of the base bottle, versus having two regular sized soda bottles would be more aerodynamic and would allow me to give the rocket a more “bullet” shaped body. When looking at fins, those with larger fins worked more…

What we did for our project was create water bottle rockets. What I all learned from making water bottle rockets was really interesting. We figured out that the smaller the rocket is, the farther it will go. The reason it will go farther is because it has less weight on it, although some big rockets will go pretty far too. What I did for my rocket was get one 1-liter bottle and cut out four triangular cardboard fins. After doing that, I hot-glued the fins towards the bottom of the rocket. When I…

from the experimental data, that the relationship between the difference in initial pressure inside the bottle rocket and the atmosphere, and the vertical height reached by the bottle rocket after 0.1 seconds, is proportional. This is quantitatively demonstrated by the high R2 value of 0.99533 of the graphed relationship, which indicates the likeness of points in a data set to an established trend; where 1 = a perfect relationship. The gradient of 0.0236 in the best fit regression line of the…

Physics Fair – Bottle Rocket (Introduction, Materials and Method) Introduction A bottle rocket is composed of two elements, energy and fuel. The energy in the case of a bottle rocket is compressed air as it is pumped into a soda bottle, half filled with water by a bicycle pump. Compressed air is an excellent source of energy because it is very lightweight and can store a plentiful amount of energy, also it does not weigh down the rocket. Water is then used as the fuel for the rocket. Water is…