IF your rocket got with in 15 feet of the base they would get 1 point off.
Everyone started out with 10 health points and each round the other teams would try and hit your base which would decrease your health points. THe object of the game was to target other team's bases and to knock them out by hitting their bases. We had a table next to our base with all our supplies and rockets, long with our bucket of water to fill the rockets with. There base consisted of a trash can with the launcher next to it.
The game was set up to where there would be 4 teams playing at one time, each team had one corner for their base. With creating these bottle rocket we devised a game in which we could use our rockets to attach other tams. It was a learning experience for us all, in different areas, which I'm grateful for.
In the end I think we did well,form the perspective that we created and launched successful rockets. Many times one group member will put another down if that member doesn't get or understand soemthing. That is something my group has struggled with, especially in this project. I feel as though I am less knowledgable in this subject, which doesn't make me stupid, I just have other strengths and smarts.
#Bottle rocket designs how to
When there was a problem with our bottle rockets, say it was going in the wrong direction that we wanted, I would't always know how to solve it. For me science, specifically physics can be hard, through I may do very well, but it just doesn't "click" in my head as well as it does in my friends' heads. I am definitely a right brain person, all of my group members were more left brain people. It was a struggle to work in an environment where they would often fight. Two of our group members hard a very hard time getting along and that impacted how they and the other two members worked. The bottle should be filled with water about 1/3 the amount of the bottle.Īs a group I think we had more mentally and relational challenges than rocket difficulties. This as mentioned reduces air drag, improves aerodynamics, adds wieght and increases stability. The nose is attached on top of the bottle and is preferably a parabola shape with smooth surfaces, for more aerodynamics and less drag. There is also the very important component of a nose cone. The best place to locate the fins is farthest back, which stabilizes the rocket. T he larger the fins are the more stable the rocket is. It is best to create the fins to be between 1/2 and 1/3 the size of the bottle, a failry large size. The fins are then attached to the fin ring, then the fin ring can be slid onto the bottle. A fin ring is simply a pastic tube cut from the middle of a bottle. The fins can be glued directly on the bottle with hot glue and duct tape or one cna create a fin ring. The fins need to be evenly spaced apart for the best results, this way bing more aerodynamic. The best shapes for the fins are triangles. Three fins gives the characterists of an arrow which is very areodynamtic, but 4 fins is also workalbe for areodynamtics. There can be as many fins as desired, but around 3 or 4 is advised.
The nozzle is also where the bottle is filled with water. The nozzle of the bottle must be facing "downwards" for the water to be released. The body is simply one or two connected bottles, used for the mass or the rocket. The first is the body, this is where the air and water is held to become compressed. There are several key parts to a bottle rocket.
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