Use the following links to answer the questions about rockets and bottle rockets.
1. What two tips do you think will help your rocket fly farther?
2. Which tip would you infer will have the most effect on your rockets distance?
3. Why would your tip from #2 make your rocket fly a farther distance?
Rocket Research 101
4. On the page titled Propulsion-Thrust, fill in the blank for the following statement "Rocket motors generate push, or “thrust,” by expelling a ___________________________ out of the nozzle."
5. What is the name of Newton's Third Law?
6. Explain how Newton's Third Law relates to a 2L bottle rocket?
7. What is the benefit of adding fins to a bottle rocket?
*Read through the questions and answers.
8. What does this website tell you about fin design and fin placement?
9. How does the shape of the nose on a rocket affect the rockets flight?
10. What does this website tell you about nose cone design/shape?
For this website, change the shape of nose cone, weights, amount of water, and PSI used to launch a rocket.
11. Which rocket flies the highest; a light rocket or a heavy rocket?
12. How did increasing the PSI affect the rocket launch?
13. Read the section about pressure; why is having too much water in a bottle rocket bad?
14. Rockets should be retired after how many launches?
15. Launch safety instructions are listed in 8 bullet points. Summarize what students should be doing to stay safe during this experiment!