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Nose Cone Hypothesis

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Data Analysis There are many different kind of nose cones. Does the shape of a nose cone affect how far a rocket will go? The rockets nose cones that were used were a pointed nose cone and a rounded nose cone. The hypothesis was the pointed nose cone will go farther than the rounded nose cone because the wind will not be pushing as much surface back to make it slower. The independent variable is the rocket nose cone shapes, which are rounded and pointed, and dependant variable is the distance the rocket has traveled. The control variables are the launching method, launch location, and tools used to measure distance. The control group is the standard rocket nose cone. The experimental group the different shapes of the nose cone. To conduct the experiment, make the straw rocket launcher. Place rocket in the rocket launcher and launch. When done, measure how far rocket went in meters. Make sure to do 3 to 5 trials switching the two. …show more content…

Then, it was launched and went 0.51 meters. The steps were repeated until enough data is collected. In trial 2, the pointed nose cone was launched and it flew 0.48 meters. As for the rounded nose cone, it went 0.48 meters as well. In the 3rd and last trial, the pointed nose cone went 0.56 meters but the rounded nose cone went 0.41. Out of the two nose cones, the rocket with the pointed nose cone went the farthest. It’s average was 0.52 meters. The rounded nose cone had the average of 0.44 meters, which made it a .08 difference. The pointed nose cone had a slight pattern for going a little longer and higher than the rounded nose cone. This occurred because it doesn’t have wind pushing against

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