Nick Rue's 9th grade physics classes have spent the past week engaging in the engineering design process with the goal of maximizing the time a bottle rocket spends in the air. Students used what they have learned about the Law of Conservation of Momentum and Newton's Laws of Motion to optimize flight time.
Period 7 students Rylie McIntyre and Mei Martinez test their design
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