Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Launching From the Moon

Today I worked with Jackie and T-Mike. We were doing he Launching from the Moon station. At first we just saw how things worked and what would be productive and good for the launch. After that we tested what we predicted to be a successful launch, it didn't work. We realized that the object that we were trying to send to the moon had to much drag so we changed the passenger object. We blew the balloon up really full and taped a straw to it. Then we took the fishing wire and stuck it through the straw to make a straight line for the balloon to shoot up, kind of like a ski lift. we attached k-nex to the straw and let the balloon go. At the steepest incine the balloon was slow ut i the end it made it to the wall.

1 comment:

Mary Margaret said...

Great description of your lab, but don't forget to come back to your key point. How did Newton's 3rd law impact this lab?