For this section our team created rockets. In this project my partner was griffin because we both had integrated a different project into chemistry. We decided to become partners since we were going to be busy with the soap project.
After we finished the soap project Griffin and I researched about rocket motors and fuel types. During the soap project we saw a video by Grant Thompson of his homemade sugar rocket which is made of potassium nitrate. We choose to do the sugar rocket because it burners a lot slower and because there wasn’t any more black powder. After we saw the video we research the basics about rocket motors and the types. Like whats a core burner? Or what's the difference between a core and an end burner?
During the rocket project andrew came to class on the weekend to manufacture all the rockets. At this time Griffin and I haven’t made a motor design because we were so busy with the soap project that we were behind. We were creating a design that was similar to Noah's and Skye’s motor, so they let us have their data. The motor design is below. At the launch we stood 100 feet away from the motor just in case it cato. Noah and Sky named the motor sugar daddy because it was a potassium nitrate motor. Sugar daddy was expected to slowly burner. At the motor test most of the motors Cato. When we were heading back to class that day water just started pouring, good thing it rained at the end of the launch.
After we got the data we used it to create a thrust curve. We tried downloading the video, but it said it was to big of a file. Andrew shorten all the video so we can download them. After he shorten the video I download it and imported it into adobe premier. This application slowed down the video to .30 of a sec. We recorded the data on google spreadsheets and made a thrust curve out of that. In our thrust curve we can see that it slowly starts to take off because it is a sugar rocket. At .45 seconds the motor reaches a thrust of about 950 grams which is the peak and then drops really quickly. The burnout time for the motor is 5.9 in 30 frames for sec and the total thrust in grams is 30336.
After we finished the soap project Griffin and I researched about rocket motors and fuel types. During the soap project we saw a video by Grant Thompson of his homemade sugar rocket which is made of potassium nitrate. We choose to do the sugar rocket because it burners a lot slower and because there wasn’t any more black powder. After we saw the video we research the basics about rocket motors and the types. Like whats a core burner? Or what's the difference between a core and an end burner?
During the rocket project andrew came to class on the weekend to manufacture all the rockets. At this time Griffin and I haven’t made a motor design because we were so busy with the soap project that we were behind. We were creating a design that was similar to Noah's and Skye’s motor, so they let us have their data. The motor design is below. At the launch we stood 100 feet away from the motor just in case it cato. Noah and Sky named the motor sugar daddy because it was a potassium nitrate motor. Sugar daddy was expected to slowly burner. At the motor test most of the motors Cato. When we were heading back to class that day water just started pouring, good thing it rained at the end of the launch.
After we got the data we used it to create a thrust curve. We tried downloading the video, but it said it was to big of a file. Andrew shorten all the video so we can download them. After he shorten the video I download it and imported it into adobe premier. This application slowed down the video to .30 of a sec. We recorded the data on google spreadsheets and made a thrust curve out of that. In our thrust curve we can see that it slowly starts to take off because it is a sugar rocket. At .45 seconds the motor reaches a thrust of about 950 grams which is the peak and then drops really quickly. The burnout time for the motor is 5.9 in 30 frames for sec and the total thrust in grams is 30336.