Class on Friday was pretty fun because we got to go outside and shoot rockets! We had to do calculations and record data of course, but it was still pretty fun to just play with the rockets! We used four different types of caps to launch our rockets in order to determine which cap had the most consistant air time. After all of our data collection we got to try to hit Mr. Blake with a rocket launched from a diagonal base. After taking measurements of the angle of launch, finding maximun velocity and height for each cap we launched our rocket at Mr. Blake. We weren't very close at all....but there was some confusion about if we were using the right cap with the data we found. But after everything got sorted out we came super close although wind and air resistance could have been factors in our miss.
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This lab reminded of me of how we made and got to shoot bottle rockets in 5th grade. I thought it was just a fun thing at the time and we had a lot of fun playing with the rockets. I now realize that we were sort of learning physics without knowing it!
Wow Kai, that's so cool! Learning physics in 5th grade is pretty cool since we didn't really realize it. It was a bunch of fun and the whole mixing up what caps to use thing was pretty confusing, it was still a lot of fun though!
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