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    Cork Rocket Experiment

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    Cork Rocket Target Grade: Hopefully 10 to 14 year olds Objectives: To show student how chemical reactions can react with one another to create totally new compounds. Liquids and solids can combine to create gasses with practical and fun applications. Materials: A litre-bottle‚ Cork (if cork doesn’t fit into bottle‚ either cut it‚ or place paper towels around it so it will fit snugly into neck of bottle)‚ Paper Towels‚ Streamers (or anything light and dangly‚ paper is okay if it is in

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    When Pranks on Played Pranks can be funny‚ but they can also be hurtful. In the short stories‚ “The Mouse Plot‚” by Ronald Dahl‚ and “All Summer in a Day‚” by Ray Bradbury‚ both involved children whose shenanigans cause painful consequences. “The Great Mouse Plot‚” part of Ronald Dahl’s autobiography‚ a group of schoolmates plays a trick on Mrs. Pratchett the mean‚ and filthy candy shop owner. They decided to put a dead mouse into one of her jars of candy‚ causing Mrs. Pratchett to drop the

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    Water Bottle Rockets

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    Introduction A water bottle rocket is essentially that; a bottle modified in the image of a rocket then filled with a select amount of water that is pressurised and launched into the air due to the forces pushing the rocket upwards from the launcher. When the completed water bottle rocket is sitting on the launcher‚ the force of the surface of the launcher pushes the rocket up whilst gravity drags it down. As the fluid inside the rocket is pressurized‚ the forces become unbalanced

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    Before baseline 11-10 launches‚ the distance rocket traveled 6.73m and weighed 1.12 grams and the seconds rocket went .92 seconds and weighed .95 grams. By adding some cardstock for fins and taking off my clay and replacing it with tape it went quite a bit further and it went quite a bit faster‚ the weight was .93 grams. With the weight taken off‚ the rocket went 1.796 m farther. For the baseline launches‚ the distance average was 7.465m and .91 seconds and for the height the average was 2

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    character’s personality to reveals truths about human nature. As portrayed in Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe‚ human nature can be revealed through the personalities of different characters. Ray Bradbury’s‚ The Veldt uses character traits that help reveal truths about human nature. While admiring the nursery for his children‚ George Hadley expresses that‚ “nothing’s too good for our children‚” (Bradbury 1) His words help reveal his human nature of being a kind and loving

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    As humanity entered the twentieth century a breakdown in social convention and the resultant blossoming of social ideas lead to the conception of a new literary sub-genre‚ soft science fiction. Inspired by works including “The Iron Heel” by Jack London1‚ it used the deficiencies and corruptions in both capitalist and communist culture to predict a dystopian future. These counter or anti-utopian societies often focus on the dehumanisation of the proletariat‚ and how the ruling class use fear and war

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    November 30‚ 2009 Ray Bradbury‚ well-known American author‚ playwright‚ and poet‚ created his success on no more than his high school diploma. He did‚ however‚ learn many valuable lessons in life which he incorporates in his works. Ray Bradbury uses figurative language such as irony‚ personification‚ and imagery to artistically present his vision of life’s morals. Bradbury’s use of irony in his pieces establishes how mankind commonly contradicts himself. In “The Veldt”‚ George and Lydia hear

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    Water Rocket Essay

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    Water- Rocket Essay Lauren is stranded on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean and she believes that her family got stranded on an island close by. Mainly because she can see and the other island like really close. She is very concerned and she wants to send a letter but she does not know how she will manage to write a letter and send it through. Luckily before her airplane crashed‚ they gave her a backpack full of necessities of life.  She was the only one to receive it for her family unfortunately

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    Investigating a Water Rocket

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    International Baccalaureate Extended essay cover Candidates must complete this page and then give this cover and their final version of the extended essay to their supervisal l Candtdate session number ~~----------~~ Candidate name School number ~-_..l~-Ye_ar_.._~)_~a School name Examination session (May or November) j Diploma Programme subject in which this extended essay is registered : r:~u~1S ·‚t.-~ t" ’ ’ (For an extended essay tn the area of languages‚

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    A rocket is a machine that develops thrust by the rapid expulsion of matter. The major components of a chemical rocket assembly are a rocket motor or engine‚ propellant consisting of fuel and an oxidizer‚ a frame to hold the components‚ control systems and a cargo such as a satellite. A rocket differs from other engines in that it carries its fuel and oxidizer internally‚ therefore it will burn in the vacuum of space as well as within the Earth’s atmosphere. The cargo is commonly referred to as the

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