Water Rocket Article from Physics Teacher Magazine
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This article (kindly scanned by Silverfish I believe) appeared in
The Physics Teacher magazine, Volume 33, March 1995, and
is reproduced here without permission, for distribution only upon
request and only for the purpose of private study.
Note that the maths offered here:
- only covers the thrust phase of the flight
- omits the additional hydrostatic pressure due to acceleration
- omits the effect of the air pulse when water is exhausted.
These effects account for the differences between computed and measured
acceleration profiles, and are accounted for by my simulation.
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