The Bottle Rockets

Bottle Rocket Background Paper A rocket is a vehicle that can travel through the air really high and can contain things like water, air, fireworks, signals, flares, etc… The water and air are pushed on the ground (which pushes the rocket up) when the rocket launches. This is called thrust. Thrust is created by Newton’s third law of motion which is , “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” In this case, the action is the water and air pushing on the ground. The equal and…

The goal of this project was to build a rocket with three fins, that can launch 100 M into the air and fall down to the earth without the egg breaking. It had to be done by November 2. Some constraints that we had to follow that limited our design was that we could only use recyclable materials, and we couldn’t use heavy materials such as metal or wood. We also didn’t have any instructions to follow, every idea came from our brains or the internet. My group decided on a design based on the…

Introduction Actual rocket ships use chemical reactions to lift off into space. Using baking soda and vinegar we can simulate a rocket taking off because when mixed together, a chemical reaction occurs. By changing the amounts of the chemicals we can determine which will allow the bottle rocket to go farther. Chemical Reaction Vinegar is an acetic acid. When an acetic acid and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) are mixed together, three new chemicals are formed, Water (H2O), carbon dioxide (co2),…

Launching bottle rockets was a difficult task, for there were many steps to follow. After all the groups launched their rockets, my partner and I compared the data for each group. Before launching the rockets, I inferred that a rocket with a lighter mass would affect time aloft by the rocket staying in flight for a longer time. For example, the rocket of Group #8 (Steven P. and Matthew P.) had a mass of 204.2 grams, and it stayed in flight for exactly 7.61 seconds. With a mass of 470.9 grams,…

afternoon and went to a town i forgot the name of. We stopped at the gas station to buy Josh some new water shoes because his were too big so rocks were getting in and hurting his feet. There was a fireworks stand out front so we bought a bunch of bottle rockets and smoke bombs. After that we went down the street to an ice cream shop. We sat inside the air conditioning and ate our ice cream. It was amazing. Once we finished our ice cream we headed back to the cabin. Everyone was pretty beat once…

water bottle rocket was to help us on our engineering skills. It was a fun project and I’m glad Coach Rob let us do it. Me and Dylan’s rocket was a great rocket except it flew on top of the gym. It flew an altitude of 87.41ft. which was ok. I thank it would have flown better if we have had a longer nose and bigger fins. The longer nose would have made it more top heavy. The bigger fins would have had a better base on it. I also made my own rocket and it flew really good. It was a 2-liter bottle…

Problem: how does the angle of trajectory effect the horizontal distance of a bottle rocket Background research: When an object is in the air and has no forces acting on it other than gravity it becomes a projectile. (Henderson, 1996) Gravity causes the projectile to accelerate toward the ground in a uniform arc like a rainbow does. this shape is known by scientists and mathematicians as a parabola, and objects that fly in the shape of a parabola are said to be in parabolic motion. A projectiles…

altering the amount of mass in a makeshift rocket will affect its distance. Our hypothesis stated that when more mass is added to the rocket, its distance will also increase. To investigate this theory, we conducted an experiment in which the mass of the rocket would be changed using differentiating amounts of water. To measure the height of the bottle rocket, we took rope and attached it to the girth of the liter bottle to determine how high the rocket launched in the air. We concluded our…

20th - October 28th), the students of Norman Knicl’s science class engaged to work exceptionally hard to assemble a bottle rocket, but two of the students didn’t acquire the grade they desired. “Newton’s laws of motion and gravity are complicated concepts to understand.” Knicl says. Dalya Fadl-Alla and Kasumi Guo, hardworking students of Knicl’s science class, constructed rockets to better comprehend the importance of these concepts. During the project, the students encountered many…

We built our rockets with little trouble. I didn’t finish, but because Joshua and Zack both did, we had no problems. We tested both rockets at varying angles and fuel levels to determine what angle and amount of water would allow the rockets to go the farthest. For some reason, we didn’t have all the data necessary to determine what the optimal fuel level and angle of launch would be for Zack’s rocket, but we did have enough to determine what it is for Joshua’s rocket. His rocket had an issue…