Key terms
a push or pull on an object
What is force?
The best shape of a nose cone?
Flat, rounded, or pointed.
What is pointed?
The 3 main parts of a rocket
What are the fins, body (fuselage) and nose cone?
The force that makes a rocket propel off the ground
What is thrust?
A unit of force
What is a Newton?
the way air moves around things; creates the least amount of drag
What is aerodynamic?
Thrust must be greater than this to fly
Hint: two words
What is weight/gravity and drag ?
These give the rocket lift
What are fins?
The aerodynamic force that slows down the rocket
What is drag?
Objects at rest will stay at rest and objects in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force
What is the first law of motion?
Distance x time=
What is speed?
This happens when the fins are angled
What is rotate the rocket faster or spins?
Front part of the rocket that is shaped to reduce drag
What is the nose cone?
Another name for drag
What is air resistance?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is the third law?
the speed and direction of a moving object
What is velocity?
The most aerodynamic fin.
Triangular, rectangular, elliptical or octagonal
What is the elliptical fin?
Another name for the body of the rocket
What is fuselage?
The force that keeps a rocket airborne
What is lift?
Newton's 2nd Law
What is force equals mass times acceleration (F=ma)?
The field of engineering that deals with designing and testing air and spacecraft.
What is Aerospace Engineering?
What is an outside factor (not parts) that determines how a rocket flies?
What are wind, temperature, or pressure?
The center of gravity of the rocket
front, center or back
What is front; near the nose cone?
The four forces on a rocket
What are lift, thrust, weight, and drag?
The year Isaac Newton saw an apple fall.
Choose a year in the 1600s
What is 1666?