Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Rocket Fail:)
Today was our last attempt at launching our bottle rocket. To say the least, it was a complete fail. We were supposed to have our rocket in the air for a minimum of 10 seconds, as we have previously done this, we foolishly thought that this would not be a problem. But we found out today that our prior success was probably due to the favorable weather conditions. Today, once again, our rocket failed. The greatest time that our rocket was is in the air was a measly 5.1 seconds, this was far below the expected and desired time. We launched several times, making several adjustments to our rocket each time. We at first just attached the nose cone to our rocket. After that did not work out as planned, we changed our parachute. We made it larger and attached it with strings. This also did not work. We attempted to launch it several more times after this, but each was a complete fail. By the end of the period our rocket was in pieces and it looked like where it ended up, trash. Today's class, though a complete failure scientifically, was hilarious. As you can see from our first video, if we learned anything today, it's that Sam is a complete idiot...he actually believed me when I said the bottle rocket wouldn't launch despite our pumping. Haha, Sam is stupid, laugh with us here:)
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Our rocket launch was an epic fail as well. I honestly believe the weather makes a huge difference. We had so much hope we would succeed, but we were really disappointed. I by far believe this has been one of the worst launches as well. We basically need to go back to our old modifications instead of trying to change up our perfectly good rocket.
ReplyDeleteI love the support of my group. The rocket had to come off of the stand in some way. You were going to let me take it off by hand!
ReplyDeletethe weather really does effect the air time of the rocket. these past couple of days were not good conditions
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