1st Launch Video

1ST LAUNCH

Today is March 15, 2011 and was the first day that we have launched our bottle rocket. There were no difficulties with setting up the equipment or launching the rocket it. We were able to launch the rocket on our first try. The design of our rocket was your simple 2-liter bottle with no adjustments added to it. We wanted to test the 2-liter bottle first to see the airtime results and make adjustments from there on so that we would have a longer airtime. The airtime was 5.23 seconds. The bottle rocket shot up into the air but than landed southwest of the launch pad if north is facing the Akahi stairs. To improve the airtime we would add fins and even a parachute to help the rocket stay in the air longer. This experiment involves Newton’s third law for every action force, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Since the bottle rocket had force making the rocket go into the air the opposite reaction would be the forces of gravity pushing the rocket back to the ground.

Design Ideas

This is our bottle rocket that we will be designing to launch. We will be recording observations such as time in the air. We will be documenting our design ideas on what will work and what wont work as while as making changes to our design based upon our launch data, as well as our launches. The first rocket design that we will be using is your basic two-liter bottle. Using a basic rocket will help to make changes to improve the airtime for the rocket. Each day the rocket will have different additions to it hopefully make the rocket stay in the air longer.

Thank you,
Oka and Kimi