Day 09 - Rocket Build

As you work through the steps in the instruction set, one teammate should write up these details (including relevant photos) while the other teammate is actually completing the next step. Rotate responsibilities between steps. It will probably take us 2 days to actually build the rocket and it is okay if we need a third. Take your time and be precise with your work! Also, remember that we want to reuse as much of these kits as possible - including instruction sets. So use the photocopied sheets to cut out your templates instead of cutting up the original instructions.

When you are ready for the sandpaper, check with me and I will get you a piece. And for any step involving glue, please understand that you do NOT want to glop glue all over your rocket. You want enough to thinly coat the part being glued. Any more than that will make a bit of a mess and add excess weight to your rocket, impairing its performance.

It will take us 2 or three class periods to complete assembly.

acceleration

the rate at which an object's speed changes

compression

squeezing an object to reduce the space it occupies

intuit

to know something without prior study

Newton's laws of motion

they remind us that objects need force to change direction or velocity, and that every force in the universe is opposed by its equal; also, F=ma, or force equals mass times acceleration

pneumatics

any technology using air pressure to do work