Water Bottle Rocket
Math 2413 - Honors Differential Equations
Kevin Guthrie, Laurence Lindsey, Kathryn Sisson, Mashruba Tasneem
Fall 2002

• Project Overview
  In our project, we are modeling the behavior of a vertically launched, pressurized 2-litre bottle from ground level; we will be basing our model off of the fundamental rocket equations, ideal-gas laws,and the conservation of linear momentum. We will be testing our model by comparing the calculated value for the maximum height to the actual height we measure in the experiment.
  


• Materials and Methods
  Click here to learn about our physical apparatus and procedure.
  


• The Experiment
  Click here for the results of the experiment.
  


• Pictures
  Click here to see us hard at work.
  


• The Math
  Click here to see the derivation of the formula for our trajectory.
  


• The Paper
  Click here to see the final paper we submitted.
  


• Update
  Right now, we are working on:
  - finishing website - final calculations of maximum height


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