Rocketry Blog Post #1

I think that the process of making the rocket was completely amazing.  But one challenge our group had was the fins, we argued on the fin shape a little and the fin number a lot, for me our inspiration board didn’t really help except for researching about friction and mass, for example, the more mass the object has more friction but if we make our rocket in a certain shape the friction will go around the rocket instead of directly at the rocket. Some objects like ice do not have that much friction, but knowing that did not really help so say bye-bye to that fact. 

We built are rocket nose cone very thin not that big and wide or else well it might fall off and that will not be that good. We had three fins cause it would be more balanced and usually toy rockets have three fins so we chose three fins. We also will choose two fins the second time we make a rocket we will make our rocket have two fins because it will go straighter and if it goes diagonal it will have to go longer and achieve the same height. We also kind of went a little overboard on the tape cause we didn’t want it to fall off.  I think our launch will be average.

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