Water Bottle Rocket Launch

This was me and Tylers first launch on Konia Field. The main reason to this complete failure was due to the pressure from the crowd and Tylers pulling technique of the string. When the bottle landed flat on the ground I was waiting for it to launch, it took a while but it did. We filled the bottle with a little amount of water with the thought that with less water, there would be less mass which would increase the hight that the bottle reaches and would increase the duration of time it would stay in the air. Our second water bottle rocket launch was much better then our first launch. More effort was put into this launch and the main improvement was that it actually went into the air, and not on the ground like our first attempt. Tomorrow will be better because we will be adding our modifications. CANT WAIT!!

Source

http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1736

This website has many links to understanding, building, and launching water bottle rockets. I think this is a key source to success. This website has links to the founder of rockets and it also has a simulator. This simulator can show the effects of our measurements and calculations. This will be a huge help because we can see the effects and minimize our failure. Also it shows us how gravity effects the rocket and how to set up our rocket so that it will have the best air time. We will work hard and create the best rockets we can, while saving time and materials. Overall i think that this is a huge resource help and will be utalized by team Tyler and Bronson.

Bottle Rockets

Today we learned that we will be creating bottle rockets, we will be using 2liter bottles for this experiment. Bronson Varde is my lab partner. We will be exploring, how to calculate gravity, speed, air time etc. in order for our rocket to stay in the air for at least, ten seconds. In this process we will learn how to use our materials and knowledge that we have gained from physics to improve our rocket, and make it stay in the air the longest. This will be a challenging process but by trial, error, and calculations, we will make our rocket fly. I think that this will be a very educational and fun experiment that we will all enjoy.