building a bottle rocket:
In this short project our class was broken into partners. We could make anything as long as it was scientific and had some interesting physics behind it. My partner and I decided that we wanted to make a bottle rocket. We made our rockets with a water bottle, then attached about four inches off the top of another bottle, to make our rocket more aerodynamic. The last thing that we did was attach small wings to our rockets to keep them in line up in the sky. We tested three bottle sizes and concluded that the middle size worked the best. The big 2liter bottle was too heavy, but our 8oz bottle just was taken by a small breeze.
Summary:Overall, this was an awesome project. I really enjoyed this project, because we were not being guided by anyone else. We where set free to do what we wanted with our rockets. The only downside to that freedom, is that we did not manage our time well at the beginning, but it all worked out great in the end!
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