In Hydro rockets we are making a rocket that runs on water. This class is really cool because we get to make a rocket that runs of water entirely of our own! 
Some people say that physics are reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally boring but I find that if you add in a few easy experiments that don't require to much brain power.
Some things that require some brain power: Newtons Law of motion (there are three laws): 1.An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion at constant velocity unless acted upon by and unbalanced force. Simplified version: 1. An object that is not moving will not move and an object that is moving will remain moving at a constant speed until someone or some thing does something to it. 2. force = Mass x Acceleration (F = M x A)
simplified: turbo boost x an object = force (I hope thats right) 3. for every action there is and equal and opposite reaction. Simplified: (can't think of any thing)
This is my table of what happened when we blasted off the rockets,
sadly, no one measured my rocket's hight so I had to make lots of crosses on the chart.
On the second launch me and Katerina( my buddy for the blast off) combined rockets because I ripped out some stuff on the first blast thinking that I only had to do one blast off.
OK, here are a few links you could try to learn more about Hydro rockets:
http://www.miranda.org/~evand/hybrid/construction.html
http://www.nationalroboticschallenge.org/downloads/recources/Bottle_Rocket_Launcher.pdf
http://www.cesa1.k12.wi.us/Technology/TeachGrants/downloads/EXCELeratingHydroRockets.pdf for the website above: it may look really boring but if you go to the bottom of the page they have templates and stuff to help you under stand about HYDRO ROCKETS
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