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Air Rockets
Bottle Rockets
Model Rockets
Full-Scale Boosters
Vocabulary
100
air rockets "working fluid"
What is air?
100
used as the main body for the bottle rocket
What is a 2L soda bottle?
100
most commonly used rockets for educational purposes
What is a standard bottle rocket?
100
where does the payload generally sit
What is the nose cone?
100
a rocket's end that releases gas, smoke, and flame to produce thrust
What is a nozzle
200
the two parts of a air rocket
What is the rocket and the launcher?
200
the "working fluid" for the bottle rocket
What is water?
200
Model rockets use small, pre-packaged, ____________.
What is solid- fuel engines?
200
light weight materials that run length of rocket
What is titanium and alluminum
200
an amount, size, speed, or degree that can be measured
What is magnitude
300
once the air pressure in the rocket builds to its full potential, the air escapes through this part of the rocket
What is the button?
300
something attached to the bottom of the body to stabilize flight
What are fins?
300
is transmitted to the body ofthe rocket through the engine mount
What is the thrust of the engine?
300
two classes of the propulsion system
What is liquid rocket engines and solid rocket motors?
300
"for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
400
during flight, only these work in it
What is weight, lift, and drag?
400
this lesson about _________ is taught through bottle rockets
What is force?
400
is inserted between the engine mount and the recovery system to prevent the hot gas of the ejection charge from damaging the recovery system.
What is recovery wadding?
400
holds the body and structure of a rocket together
What is hoops?
400
"Objects at rest remain at rest and objects in motion remain in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force"
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
500
what the air rocket becomes when the launch tube is inserted
What is a closed pressure tube?
500
used to accelerate the working fluid
What is pressurized air?
500
consists of a parachute (or a streamer) and some lines to connect the parachute to the nose cone.
What is recovrey system?
500
the four major systems of full-scale boosters
What is structure, payload, guidance, and propulsion?
500
a substance that includes oxygen to aid combustion
What is oxidizer?