Thursday, May 16, 2013

Scared




6 comments:

  1. This is a chemical reaction of a solid fuel rocket. This produces alot of thrust for a short period of time. It is set off by an electric charge and burns until it is done. There is no turning it off after it is set off. The burn time depends on the amount of fuel and the thrust produced. The more thrust the short the burn time.

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  2. This is physics because the chemical reaction caused by the electric charge being set off produces chemical energy. The gun powder shoots out of the rocket for a certain amount of time varying on how much gunpowder is in the rocket. When the rocket is set off that is all the stored chemical energy being released.

    PC

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  3. The rocket engine was using newton’s first law. The engine has force acting in one direction but the rock is another force acting on the engine not letting the engine going in the direction of the thrust.

    QF

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  4. What occurs here is a classic chemical reaction, first discovered in China. The rocket is filled with gunpowder, a very volatile substance. When an electrical charge it applied to it, it's enough to ignite the powder inside, resulting in a cool, flamey burst. Depending upon how much gunpowder is inside, this process will continue for a number of seconds until there is no more left to burn.
    -Charlie

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  5. This was one was cool and a little scary. The rocket engine exerts an average of 5 newtons of thrust per second and in the initial Burnout the engine it reaches up to 15newtons of thrust. This was not enough force, thank goodness, to rip through the tape and fly away. The engines energy was held in potential chemical energy and once ignited it changed into kinetic thermal energy which gave it force.

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  6. This is a chemical reaction. It is caused by gunpowder which was ignited by an electrical spark. Because the energy (in this case heat) has nowhere else to expand, it goes through the small hole at the front of this engine. (It also looks really cool)

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