Basic Water Bottle Rocket

Bottles may end up in trees or roofs of buildings too.

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. Now that you know about the basic parts of a rocket and what they do. Hold the rocket by the neck of the bottle and pump air into it. The rocket will go off when the cork can no longer withstand the pressure building up in the bottle.

These rockets use pressurized air and water to fly hundreds of feet in the air and make a great science project for use at home or in the classroom. These instructions detail the steps involved in building a water bottle rocket. The conclusion or result would be that the water bottle rocket could fly. Let go of the bottle.

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. Therefore you need an area safe from people animals and objects that could be injured by a plastic bottle hurtling through the air. Shoot rockets over 200 feet. Don t stand too close to the rocket as water would be squirted out in all possible directions.

Test below is a comparison of a nasa saturn v rocket that went to the moon and a water rocket you might build. Construct and launch a simple bottle rocket made from a two liter soda bottle. Learn how to build your own water bottle rocket from a two liter soda bottle. 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.

Home rocket history rocket basics design cg cp. The water bottle rocket demonstrates two of his laws. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The water moves one way and the bottle goes the opposite way.

The water will shoot out everywhere when the bottle rocket takes off so be prepared to get a bit wet. Place launch pad as far from compressor as is allowed by hose attachment. Water bottle rockets need unobstructed space for safety.