Rocket Power Point Presentation on app Keynote
Directions: You group will be creating a power point presentation of your rocket and its launch.
Slide #1-2 Background research (Day 1)
You will each need to go through the Rocket Links at the bottom of the page and based on your knowledge explain what type of fins and nose cone you are choosing and why. Use at least 5 phyics terms in your explainations. Include your sources where you got the information.
Student #1 focus on fins, stability, and center of gravity.
Student #2 focus on nose cone, forces of lift off, flight , and recovery.
Student # 3 focus on weight and drag.
Student # 4 focus on Rocket principles.
Write down important facts and share what you learned with eachother.
Slide #3 Applying your knowlegde (Day 1-2)
Explain how your rocket applys to Newton's 1st law, Newton's 2nd law, and Newton's 3rd law of motion.
Slide #4 Build and Design(Day 2-3)
Fins and nose cones:
Briefly describe your design of fins, # of fins, size of nose cone and why you chose your designs. Include images of your rocket.
Slide #5 Component Systems (day 3-4)
Final Build specifications:
Total weight in grams
height of nose cone in cm
# of fins
Rocket fusalage
mass of the nose cone
mL of water added
80 psi of pressure
Slide #6 Launch Results (Day 5)
Describe the flight performance of your rocket.
Include:
launch day conditions
The stability of your rocket in flight
Other components to the performance of your launch.
Total flight time in air.
Did your parachute deploy?
Include photos of your rocket launch.
Slide #7 Conclusions (Day 5-6)
Compare your data to the class average
What was the class average mass?
What was the class average flight time?
Was it better or worse?
What accounts for the difference?
What would you change if you could do it all again?
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TOPICS AND LINKS
1. History of Rockets
2. Rocket Principles: Newton's Three Laws of Motion 3. Model Rockets: Introduction to Model Rocketry, and Altitudes of a Model Rocket 4. Typical Flight of a Model Rocket:
5. Rocket Propulsion, Rocket Engines, Rocket Engine Performance
6.This part is important for your design
Forces: Weight, Lift, Drag and Thrust.
7. Weight Determination, Center of Gravity, Center of Pressure and Stability of
a Model Rocket.
page with lots of Model Rocket links.
Rocket Links |
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NASA website about the principles of water bottle rockets.
Videos of construction of a simple water bottle rocket
Step-by-step directions to build a water bottle rocket
The most extensive page on Rockets from NASA. At this Web site you can study how model rockets operate at your own pace and to your own level of interest.Includes the interaction of forces involved in the flight of the on the rocket. There are several pages devoted to basic gas properties and aerodynamic forces involved in the motion of the rocket.
Index to the NASA website, easy to navigate, contains these sections: Model Rockets, Lift Off, Powered Flight, Coasting Flight, Recovery, Gases: Static and Dynamic, Forces: Newton's Laws, Thrust, Weight, Aerodynamics, Lift, Drag and Falling Objects. Contains excellent simulations.
This webpage contains tips on teaching with rocketry, background technical information about model rockets, and things like: projects with model rockets, payloads, special educational rocket kits, how rockets work, safety guidelines, other links.
This page drives a rocket simulation program which will project the peak altitude and other flight profile information about a model rocket.
Equations to accurately predict speed and altitude for a rocket from weight, diameter, motor thrust and impulse.
