Question. Does The Rocket Go Farther If The Wings

QUESTION. Does the rocket go farther if the wings are different sizes? HYPOTHESIS. If the wings are bigger, than the rocket will go farther because it will pick up the wind more and make it more aerodynamic. MATERIALS. 3 wings (right triangle) 3cm x6cm 3 wings (right triangle) 5cm x 10cm 3 wings (right triangle) 10cm x 15cm three 2 liter pop bottle three 16.9 ounce pop bottle duct tape launcher people water PROCEDURE. Control Rocket .30º .no paper on the bottle .100 ml of water in nose bottle .400 ml of water in body bottle .3 10x5 (cm) .wings in the middle of the body evenly spaced. 1. Cover all 9 wings completely in duct tape 2. Put the bottoms of the two bottles together, by interlocking them. Use 5 small strips of duct tape to put in the grooves of the tape. Then secure with more duct tape on the top of where tape is and the bottom. (Make sure it's stable.) 3. Now attach the wings: put two pieces of duct on each wing and put on the bottle. Put the 10x5's on one bottle, the 6x3's on another and exc… 4. Fill up water to “starter amount” & mark it. 5. Launch. 6. Look at distance & record Go & get the rocket TABLE. Distance Depends on Wing Size Wing Size

Trial 1

Trial 2

Average

3x6

85

78

81.5

5x10 (starter)

74

80

77

10x15

69

57

63

5b GRAPH.

CONCLUSION. We were wrong; our smallest wing size actually went the farthest. (We were wrong in our prediction.) If we were to do the experiment again, we would do even smaller wing sizes to see if our rocket went more distance.