Project Report: The Rocket

Members:

Li Jung Huang- Kelly

Alinnan Thiptanakit- Jinny

Rokaya Abdulaal- Kaya

Prame Ruangkana- Tuang

Teacher: Miss Susan Alulod

Objective:
First, get to learn the projectile motion. Second, get to

know about the change of energy, which is understanding how

potential energy will transfer to kinetic energy.

Materials:

Chemical Material:

Vinegar Baking Soda

Laboratory Apparatus:

Coca-Cola Duct Tape Future Board PVC Tubes

Laboratory Apparatus: (continued)

Cardboard Paper Cork-Wine Measuring Cup

Color Paint Spray Color Scissors

Weighting Scale for Bakery

Set-up:
The first rocket with wings is the first trial that didnt reach the target.
The launcher is made of PVC tubes and a flat wooden board

This is the actual launcher that we use in our rocket project.-Rookie

 This the actual rocket that we did in the rocket project. The condition that is in this

stated is because the material that we design the rocket isnt strong enough so we

recommend that the people who are doing this project next should prepare more

offensive or strong material for this rocket or prepare a spare rocket just in case the

actual rocket is in the state that is not useable.

Background / Introduction:
This project including two different kind of subject,

Physics, and Chemistry. For the purpose, we would like to use

our knowledge to apply in this experiment. In the physic part,

we are going to use what we had learnt in this whole year and

design a rocket and launcher that can help us to approach the

best score, which may involve in Newtons Law, momentum,

projectile, etc.

For example, in general the suitable angle to shot a

farthest length will be 45 degree, but we need to find out the

one fit to our rocket in this experiment. Chemistry part will

involve on the measurement of the chemical that will be use

during the bottle experiment and form a energy that can push

the rocket into sky, which the chemical we are going to use will

be baking soda and vinegar. And then we must reach the target

that has a distance of 20m from the starting point.

Discussion of Physics Concept:

Measurements, the act of process of measuring, in our

daily life we can measure things like our weight, height,

temperature, etc. In this rocket project we are going to measure

the angle of launch, the amount of baking soda and vinegar, the

length of trajectory, and the mass of rocket.

Newtons Laws of motion, for the first law it means that

An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an

unbalanced force. Second law talk about that: Acceleration is

produced when a force act on a mass. The greater the mass

the greater the amount of force needed. . Lastly, the third law

is quite simple, it mention about every action has an equal and

opposite re-action. For this project, when the rocket launch to

the sky it will fall down in the end, it is because of the gravity,

which is a type of acceleration, and acceleration is one of the

main point of Newtons laws of motion.

Linear motion, also called as uniform motion or rectilinear

motion, is the motion in one spatial dimension. Linear motion

related to projectile motion by their formula, which projectile

motion use the formula of linear motion to calculate any

quantity.

Projectile is the motion of object given initial velocity that

then move only under force of gravity. In the experiment, the

motion path of rocket is the projectile motion that has initial

velocity, and we would like to study the suitable angle for our

target that has a horizontal distance of 20 meters, with the size

of 3 meter of diameter. In our group, we found out that the

angle with 45 degree will be the most suitable to reach the

target.

Impulse is the product of force and time interval over

which it acts. For the momentum, it is the product of objects

mass and velocity. We would like to know the momentum when

the rocket reaches our target.

Energy is non-material property capable of causing

changes in matter, and has the ability to make things happen.

Kinetic energy is a kind of energy of object due to its motion,

and the potential energy is the energy that due to its position or

state. Work is the product of force and displacement in the

direction of the force. Lastly, power is the rate of doing work,

and the rate of energy conversion. During the launch, the

energy of rocket will change from kinetic energy to potential

energy because of the path of motion or you can say the

change of position. And the energy of rocket will change back

to kinetic energy in the end when it collide to the target.

 Discussion of Design:
We decide to go with a simple design like a bullet in order

to cut out the unnecessary decoration, which add more weight

to the rocket. The launcher will aim at 45 degrees height and it

will keep distance between target and the launcher in 20

meters.

For the rocket:

1. You will start from buying a big bottle of cola, duct tape, color

spray and a hard paper. For the bottle, we change the size of it

for several times, and we think the bottle with 1 liter. Perform

the best compare to others.

2. Roll the paper into shape of cone, and use tape to shape it

carefully, which fit to our rocket. And before we put the cone on

to the bottle as the nose, we add some weight inside the corn

to increase the weight of our rocket, because if we dont add it,

than the rocket will be way to light and be blow by the wind

during the launch.

3. We used to make some fins and add on the rocket, but after

several try, we found out the fins will make the rocket stuck on
 the launcher, and lead to a unsuccessful launch. So we decided

to not put the fins, and make the rocket look just like a bullet,

which may helps to fly much more far than the one without

streamline.
4. Lastly, we decorated our rocket into red with the color spray,

which dont really have a meaning or help anything, but just for

a good looking.

For the launcher:

1. At first, we have to gather a bunch of PVC tubes then a flat

wood.
2. Next, cut the PVC tubes into two tubes. The length of it is 35

cm each.
3. Next, glue two tubes on the flat wood using hot glue. But the

gap of the two tubes must be apart about 5-7 cm.

4. Wait for 2-3 hours for the launcher to dry up for the glue. If you

want to make it dry faster then you can put it under the sun.
5. Last but not least, when the tubes are completely stick on the

flat wood. Then you can design the launcher to make it look

unique.

Data
Analysis of Data:
It shows that we failed to reach the target of 20 meters

long, which is disappointing. However, our best performance in

this project is 26 grams of baking soda and 400 milliliters of

vinegar, which create a distance between the rocket and the

launcher at 6 meters.

The reason why our rocket doesnt reach 20 meter is because

our rocket doesnt have wings and too little baking soda. In the

1st and 2nd trial, we use a bottle which average of 45G.

However, we decide to decrease both baking soda and vinegar

 because of insufficient equipment. The 3rd one seems perfect

because it reach to 6 meters which in the 4th trial, we decide to

add some more but because of the factor that the cork is too

tight which make a chemical inside stuck there and didnt make

any reaction.

Conclusion:
In a nutshell, the rocket did not reach the target because

of human error and environment error. The human errors are

there are not enough time for one person doing all of the work,

there isnt enough baking soda and vinegar that make the

rocket does not fly and lastly is the design that we did. We did

not attach the wings to make it wind resistance. Environment

error is sometimes there is wind that blew our rocket far away

and the wind blew too strong that makes the rocket fly

backward.

Recommendation:
- Everyone in the group should work in a group to make the

rocket success.
- A rocket should have the tip or the point and the wings are

necessary.
- If the rocket is too light, should put more vinegar and baking

soda to make it go farther.

- If the weather is too windy, should wait for the wind to breeze

down or make the wings stronger. Or should do the experiment

in sunny day.
- Should prepare more than rocket just in case the other rocket is

not useable.

Work Log
Li Huang Jung (Kelly)
Alinnan Thiptanakit (Jinny)
Rokaya Abdulaal (Kaya)
Prame Ruangkana (Tuang)
Objective, Materials,
Background/Introduction,
Discussion Concept, Design for
Rocket
Discussion of Design for launcher,
Conclusion, Recommendation,
Design of the Report
Half of the conclusion, references
References
References
1. California Science. "Stoichiometry: Baking Soda and Vinegar

Reactions." N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.

2. Teachertech, R. Retrieved from

http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/law1.html

3. The physic, C. (2016) Retrieved from

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/u3l2a.cfm