WATER Bottle Rocket

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Materials:

• 1.5 or 2 L soda bottle• cork• cardboard• clay/tennis ball/ping pong ball• glue gun, masking tape, duct tape• scissors• decorations

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RUBRIC

• Design and construction look carefully planned.

• Design is interesting and attractive.

• The rocket is neat and free of flaws.

• The rocket has all the parts (nose and fins).

1. Construction and Design

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• Rocket leaves the launch pad and flies for at least

3 seconds.

• Rocket is propelled only by water and air

pressure.

• Rocket can be launched at least 3 times.

2. Flight Performance

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• Explain the physics behind the project.

• Calculate the net force acting on the rocket at the

moment of launch, initial acceleration of the

rocket at the moment of launch, impulse imparted

on the rocket, maximum altitude to which the

water rose, and velocity of the rocket as it strikes

the ground.

3. Written Output

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