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Soda-Bottle Water Rockets.
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This article is published in The Physics Teacher.The article was published on 1995-03-01. It has received 14 citations till now.read more
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A more thorough analysis of water rockets: Moist adiabats, transient flows, and inertial forces in a soda bottle
TL;DR: The water rocket as mentioned in this paper is a popular toy that is often used in first year physics courses to illustrate Newton's laws of motion and rocket propulsion, and is made of a soda bottle, a bicycle pump, a rubber stopper, and some piping.
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Aim for the sky: Fostering a Constructionist Learning Environment for Teaching Maker Skills to Children in India
Velayudhan Alekh,Vilvanathan Vennila,Rahul Nair,Vattigunta Susmitha,Anirudh Muraleedharan,Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz,Nagarajan Akshay,Rao R. Bhavani +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a workshop was conducted to teach maker skills in the context of STEM-based learning to eighth graders in a semi-urban school in India, where the students were taught to work with tools and the principles of design and the science required to create and launch water rockets.
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Air expansion in the water rocket
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the thermodynamics of the water rocket in the thrust phase, taking into account the expansion of the air with water vapor, vapor condensation and the energy taken from the environment.
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Air expansion in a water rocket
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the thermodynamics of a water rocket in the thrust phase, taking into account the expansion of the air with water vapor, vapor condensation, and the corresponding latent heat.
Aim for the sky: Fostering a Constructionist learning environment for teaching maker skills to children in India
Velayudhan Alekh,Vattigunta Susmitha,Vilvanathan Vennila,Anirudh Muraleedharan,Rahul Nair,M. Alkoyak-Yildiz,Nagarajan Akshay,Rao R. Bhavani +7 more
TL;DR: The paper discusses the workshop conducted to teach maker skills in the context of STEM-based learning to eighth graders in a semi-urban school in India and reveals a reported significant reduction in performance related tension and pressure after participating in such collaborative activities.