Basic Water Bottle Rocket

These instructions detail the steps involved in building a water bottle rocket.

Basic water bottle rocket.

This rocket project is suitable for ages 8 and up with adult supervision and should take less than 20 minutes to build. The water moves one way and the bottle goes the opposite way. Shoot rockets over 200 feet. Learn how to build your own water bottle rocket from a two liter soda bottle.

Water bottle rockets need unobstructed space for safety. Next set up air compressor by plugging in and running until at full capacity. Let go of the bottle. Bottles may end up in trees or roofs of buildings too.

The rocket will go off when the cork can no longer withstand the pressure building up in the bottle. Don t stand too close to the rocket as water would be squirted out in all possible directions. Prepare a neat data sheet with the measurements calculations if any and present the lab report if you do the simple activity in school as a lab assignment. The water will shoot out everywhere when the bottle rocket takes off so be prepared to get a bit wet.

Home rocket history rocket basics design cg cp. The water bottle rocket demonstrates two of his laws. Have students fill their rockets with water 1 3 of the bottle volume and attach launch director piece of paper with space for dowel insertion. Parts of a rocket and their purpose.

Hold the rocket by the neck of the bottle and pump air into it. Vvvvvvvv parts list below vvvvvvvv check out our o. Now that you know about the basic parts of a rocket and what they do. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Therefore you need an area safe from people animals and objects that could be injured by a plastic bottle hurtling through the air. Test below is a comparison of a nasa saturn v rocket that went to the moon and a water rocket you might build. The conclusion or result would be that the water bottle rocket could fly.