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Impact of Wing Count on Rocket Distance

The document summarizes an experiment to test how the amount of wings on a rocket affects its distance. It found that rockets with 3 wings on average traveled farther than those with 2 or 4 wings, going 59 meters compared to 29.3 meters and 40.6 meters respectively. The experiment used pop bottles as the rocket body, with cardboard wings of varying amounts taped to the sides and the bottles launched with equal force from the same starting height and filled with the same amount of water.

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Impact of Wing Count on Rocket Distance

The document summarizes an experiment to test how the amount of wings on a rocket affects its distance. It found that rockets with 3 wings on average traveled farther than those with 2 or 4 wings, going 59 meters compared to 29.3 meters and 40.6 meters respectively. The experiment used pop bottles as the rocket body, with cardboard wings of varying amounts taped to the sides and the bottles launched with equal force from the same starting height and filled with the same amount of water.

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Second Experiment – Amount of Wings

A. Does the amount of wings affect how far the rocket goes?
B. If there are an amount of wings in the middle, than the rocket will go farther, because it won't way
too much, but it will still have enough to keep it going in the right direction.
C.

Distance of the Rocket Depends on Wing Amount


Wing Amount Distance (meters) Average Distance
(meters)
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3
2 30 31 27 29.3
3 60 62 55 59
4 34 40 48 40.6

Source: Tails & Nats (: 2010.

D. Size of pop bottles, amount of pop bottles, force, starting point/height, amount of water inside bottle.
E. Two pop bottles, water, card board, force, duct tape.
F. Tape bottles together with the small one on top with the bottoms of each bottle attached with tape.
Measure wings out on cardboard & cut them out to the sizes that we need. Then tape them to either side
of the bottom rocket with more duct tape. Start out with two, & keep adding one more each time until
you get up to five wings.
2 wings

4 wings 3 wings

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