Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Blogpost #5 Fourth Day of Launching

Today logged in as day four of our rocket launch trials. To obtain credit for today‘s assignment, each group was required to have their rocket stay in the air for a minimum of 5 seconds. By now, each group had already added immense amounts of modifications to their rockets ensuring that a majority of the groups would be able to keep their rockets in the air for the minimum of 5 seconds. Over the weekend, I was determined to design a rocket that would meet the ultimate goal of remainning in the air for ten seconds, so I decided to rebuild our entire rocket. I used the two following links to help with my construction process:

Rocket Structure/Fins/Nose Cone: http://tclauset.org/21_BtlRockets/BTL.htm

Parachute: http://www.pack530.org/PDF%20FILES/Building%20A%20P-530%20Rocket.pdf

Due to the additional modifications, our rocket was able to remain in flight for 5.5 seconds. YAAAYYY!!(:

1 comment:

  1. Hey! We used the same website! :) it was really helpful right?? I can relate because my groups rocket was based on creating it from that website and it made the 5 second minimum as well :)

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