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How The Amount of Water in Body Affects Distance

The document describes an experiment testing how the amount of water in a rocket's base affects the distance it travels. It finds that as the amount of water is increased from 400ml to 800ml, the average distance traveled also increases, from 72.5m to 81.5m, supporting the hypothesis that more water provides more propulsion. The experiment uses pop bottles as the rocket body and keeps other variables like wing size and nose cone water constant while only adjusting the base water amount.

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How The Amount of Water in Body Affects Distance

The document describes an experiment testing how the amount of water in a rocket's base affects the distance it travels. It finds that as the amount of water is increased from 400ml to 800ml, the average distance traveled also increases, from 72.5m to 81.5m, supporting the hypothesis that more water provides more propulsion. The experiment uses pop bottles as the rocket body and keeps other variables like wing size and nose cone water constant while only adjusting the base water amount.

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How the Amount of Water

in body affects distance


Rocket travels.

Amount of Water Distance traveled Average Distance


in Base (m) traveled (m)

Trial 1 Trial 2

400 ml 75 70 72.5

800 ml 80 83 81.5

600 ml 78 81 79.5

Question: How the amount of water in the base affect the distance the rocket will travel.

Hypothesis: If we put more water in the base, then the rocket will travel farther because
it has more push behind it.

Control variables. 1. 30 degree tilt of rocket on launch. 2. 100 ml of water in nose cone.
3. 10 x 5 wing size. 4.. 3 wings on rocket.

Materials: 4 pop bottles, duct tape, cardboard wings, water

Control Rocket: 30 degree tilt, 3 wings(size 10 x 5), 100 ml water in nose cone, 400 ml
water in body.
Step by step procedure: First, you get a 2 liter pop bottle along with a 20 oz. bottle.
Then, rip the paper off the bottles. Next, duct tape the bottles together so that the
bottoms are together. Then, duct tape the chosen size wing so you can not see any
cardboard, and securely fasten them to the rocket with duct tape. Next, fill the rocket up
with the desired amount of water in the base, and nose cone. When this is completed,

Dornbos_Matthew Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:03:54 PM GMT-04:00


you are ready to launch! Take the cap off the 2 liter bottle, and quickly put it on the
launching stick thing. (make sure it is all the way on.) Then, put the clamps together,
and put air into the rocket. Next, pull the string back until the rocket launches. Be sure to
yell launch for safety reasons.

Does your data support hypothesis? Yes, because when we put 800 ml in the body, it
traveled an average of 81.5, compared to 400 ml’s average of 72.5.

Conclusion: When we put 800 ml of water the in body, it traveled the farthest out of the
three we tested. The 800 ml of water traveled an average of 81.5.

Dornbos_Matthew Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:03:54 PM GMT-04:00

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