[Year 12 IT Apps] Re: OT Rocket Science qn..

[Mark Kelly]

If you could tie the rockets to a discussion of spreadsheets, you'd 
stand a chance  :-)

Brendyn Hancock wrote:
> Boo hoo.
> 
> This thread has given me some great solutions for an underfunded
> network. Or a great way to file the new study design.
> 
> My science guys have loved these emails.
> 
> Brendyn
> 
> Brendyn Hancock
> IT Manager
> bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au
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> 
>>>> Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> 15/08/2007 8:31 am >>>
> Sorry to be a party pooper, guys, but this would do better in the 
> Offtopic list.
> 
> Cameron Bell wrote:
>> We used to do it at a previous school with an adventurous sci lab
> tech 
>> who mixed up hydrogen and oxygen with water in the bottle.
>> The bottle was inserted on a plastic conduit pipe that had two wires
> 
>> running up the middle and were exposed at the top.  Just add
> battery!
>> We did learn that you can't use the same bottle twice. the intial 
>> explosion sort of annealed (?) the plastic to make it very very
> brittle, 
>> so any subsequent launches just shattered the bottle.
>> Did it out on the oval. Kids loved it!  Boy did we get some height!
>> Cheers
>> Cameron
>>
>> Russell Edwards wrote:
>>> On 14/08/2007, at 11:16 PM, McDonald, Debra A1 wrote:
>>>> our school does this but with water rockets.. and it is much
> easier..
>>> _Water_? Booooo!!! No loud hissing noise, no billowing smoke, how 
>>> boring! Everyone knows it's the pyrotechnics and not the principles
> of 
>>> propulsion or ballistics that make it fun ;-)
>>>
>>> Russell
>>>
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