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Drag: occurs when air (or other gas/fluid) pushes back against a moving object and slows it down.
Fins: are flat things attached to rockets that help maintain a particular direction Inertia: the tendency for an object to resist change unless acted upon by an outside force, also known as Newton’s First Law of Motion Potential energy (PE): The energy stored by an object ready to be used. (In this lesson, we use gravitational potential energy, which is directly related to the height of an object and its mass.) Kinetic energy (KE): the energy of an object in motion Thrust: is the force that moves and object forward or upward and is the opposite of drag and gravity |
Procedures:
For this challenge, your child will be building a straw rocket! The directions for this activity are included below.