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When does a model rocket reach its maximum height during flight?
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β 15y ago
In my short career as a model rocket launcher we did this. There was a tall pole near our launcher. I called the company that installed the pole and they told me it 73 feet tall.
Someone, usually my younger brother, would be located much farther away from the launch site. After each launch, his job was to estimate how high (or how many of those poles he thought) the rocket flew before falling back down.
Answer:Simple geometry is needed - after all you are using a rocket and must have some math and science skills. An observer at a distance follows the flight of a rocket along a moveable bar. The angle of the bar at the top of the trajectory and the distance of the observer from the launch pad is converted into altitude by the formula:
cot A =adjacent/opposite
where A id the observed angle fromthe horizontal, the adjacent is the distance to the pad from the observer, and opposite the height of the rocket.
All that's needed is to reorganize the equation and finf the cotangent of the angle:
Opposite = adjacent/cot A
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β 14y ago
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β 14y agoHow long is a bit of string? and how deep is space? there is no real answer.
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β 12y agoDepends on many things....
How you make the rocket
What engine you use
what propulsion.
Tell me what you will use and I'll try to answer it for you.
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β 6y agoThe answer depends on the design of the rocket, how it is propelled and so on.
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β 15y agoI would say, when it stops ascending.
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β 11y agoSome of mine go over 5,000 feet.
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β 14y agoAny where from 0- maybe even 300 feet
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β 11y ago121,000 ft
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How does a rocket achieve maximum flight?
A rocket (firework) achieves maximum height once the fuel plus upward thrust runs out. Then gravity takes over and the rocket falls back to the ground.
A rocket is launched upward with a velocity of 64 feet per second from the top of a 95-foot structure What is the maximum height attainrd by the rocket?
The rocket would attain a maximum height of 158.65 feet (63.65 feet from the top of the structure).
When does a model rocket attain maximum height?
when the vertical component of its velocity is zero.
How to know the maximum height of a rocket?
check your undies and then you'll know ;) PEEK A BOO
What is the highest point a rocket reaches during flight?
Apogee
How do fins stabilize a rocket?
about one-forth of the height of the size of the rocket.
How do fins on a straw rocket affect it's flight?
Fins on a rocket affects its flight by the way they are built on the rocket
What angle should you launch a bottle rocket at?
Well, for what? If it's height, then 90o. If you want maximum horizontal distance, then fire it at 45o.
What four forces is a model rocket subject to during a flight?
Lift, drag, thrust, and gravity.
How big must fins be to make a rocket stable?
the rockets on the fin are over 50 feet long and this so the rocket will be stable during flight
What is the difference between rocket flight and airplane flight?
A plane needs air, a rocket doesn't.
When a rocket reaches maximum height what is its velocity?
A model rocket reaches maximum velocity at the point where the thrust from the engine matches the drag from the air, or the point where the thrust goes to zero when the fuel burns out, whichever comes first.
