[Year 12 IT Apps] Re: OT Rocket Science qn..

[Cameron Bell]

gotta love that cross-curricula polenation.  See,  VELS aint that hard.  ;)
Cameron

Brendyn Hancock wrote:
> Boo hoo.
>
> This thread has given me some great solutions for an underfunded
> network. Or a great way to file the new study design.
>
> My science guys have loved these emails.
>
> Brendyn
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> Brendyn Hancock
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>>>> Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> 15/08/2007 8:31 am >>>
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> Sorry to be a party pooper, guys, but this would do better in the 
> Offtopic list.
>
> Cameron Bell wrote:
>   
>> We used to do it at a previous school with an adventurous sci lab
>>     
> tech 
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>> who mixed up hydrogen and oxygen with water in the bottle.
>> The bottle was inserted on a plastic conduit pipe that had two wires
>>     
>
>   
>> running up the middle and were exposed at the top.  Just add
>>     
> battery!
>   
>> We did learn that you can't use the same bottle twice. the intial 
>> explosion sort of annealed (?) the plastic to make it very very
>>     
> brittle, 
>   
>> so any subsequent launches just shattered the bottle.
>> Did it out on the oval. Kids loved it!  Boy did we get some height!
>> Cheers
>> Cameron
>>
>> Russell Edwards wrote:
>>     
>>> On 14/08/2007, at 11:16 PM, McDonald, Debra A1 wrote:
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>>>> our school does this but with water rockets.. and it is much
>>>>         
> easier..
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>>> _Water_? Booooo!!! No loud hissing noise, no billowing smoke, how 
>>> boring! Everyone knows it's the pyrotechnics and not the principles
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> of 
>   
>>> propulsion or ballistics that make it fun ;-)
>>>
>>> Russell
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