Group Members - 1101

- Witchayut Ngarmpornchai
- Nichaporn Nattawut
- Phatsakorn Rodphol
- Tanakom Kaweewuthisinp

1. Analyze your rocket's motion:

- How long was your rocket in the air? 0.1 sec
- Estimate your rocket's maximum height. Show and explain all calculations.
The rocket was launched with small amount of pressure as pressure was leaking out.
Therefore, our rocket flew only 0.05 meter above the ground level before it is dropped to the
ground.

Y = vt -½ g t*t
Y = 0 - ½ * -10 * 0.1*0.1
Y = 0.05 m

- What was your rocket's maximum velocity? Show and explain all calculations.

Y = ut + ½ g t*t
0.05 = 0.1u + ½*-10*0.1*0.1
U = 1 m/s
2. What role did friction play in the performance of your rocket? Did it aid or hinder?
The friction can be seen when the rocket is released from the launcher, the force is
on the upward direction and friction force is on the downward direction. During the
performance, we noticed that there is the air resistance which is the friction found in the air.
The air resistance resist the velocity of the rocket going up, so it slow down the rocket
velocity. Therefore, the friction hinder the rocket performance.

3. Beginning with the stored mechanical energy in the pressurized rocket, explain the
multiple transformations the energy goes through
First the mechanical energy is transformed to the kinetic energy and to potential
energy if we considered the launch point as the reference point. At first, the potential energy
was not existed as we placed the rocket at the reference point. But after we added the
pressure to the rocket, the mechanical energy was transformed to the kinetic energy as the
rocket had a velocity. After the rocket was launched, the rocket was in the air above the
reference point which mean that the rocket now had a potential energy. When the height is
above the reference point, the rocket increases the kinetic energy and it is transformed to
potential energy and at the highest point there is no kinetic energy so the total energy now is
potential energy. But due to gravity make the rocket fall down to the ground the potential
decreases and the kinetic energy increases until it is back to the reference point again where
there is no potential energy.

4. How did undertaking this project improve your understanding of work and energy?
 This project helped a lot in terms of understanding the transformation of energy.
Because it make us see the picture that as the rocket is going up the kinetic energy changed
to potential energy. As the total energy should be the same when the rocket launched we
can notice that the kinetic energy decreased as the potential increased which mean that
kinetic energy is transformed. Similar to the falling down part. The potential is decreased as
the height decreases and the kinetic increases. In addition, this is caused by work which is
the air resistance. The air resistance decreases the kinetic energy and changing it to the
potential energy.

5. How did you feel about this project when it was first assigned?
I thought that it was interesting. We’ve never made things like this before in this
accelerated class and this is how we can link what we learnt in the class to what we can see
in daily life.

6. How do you feel about this project now that it has concluded?
I feel that we have fail the assignment because our rocket didn’t performance well. It
didn’t goes as height as other groups rocket. However, we still think that this project is fun
and interesting. We learn a lot from this failure and we think that if we have a chance to do it
again it will be better.

7. What would you have done differently as you and your team worked through this project?
If we have a chance to do this project again we will find more information in terms of
rocket creation. We will plan the rocket better because this model did not performance well
due to the pressure is leaking out of the bottle.

Analysis:
The rocket did not launch well because the pressure was leaking out of the bottle.
Thus when we launch the rocket, the pressure go out and the rocket cannot fly. When the
pressure has been given into the rocket, it leaks through the hole which is occured because
we cut the bottle on the both ends in order to put two of the bottles into each others. This is
because when we tried to combine them, they didn’t fit each others. The mistake is made
because we didn’t seal it back well enough. Even water can’t leak out of the rocket, though
pressure can leak and the rocket could not be launched.