![]() ![]() I had to fit it back together just a few times. I used the stomp rocket shown above at an out door event for more than 6 hours. You will end up with four pieces about 5 feet long, 2 1/2 feet long, 1 1/4 feet long (2).Īssemble as shown with the long and the medium pipes attached to the 90 degree elbow. If you do not have a ruler with you then cut into four pieces = cut into half, cut one half into half, and then one of those halves into half again. The left over peice will be about 2 feet (60 cm) long. Cut three pieces that are 11.5 inches (29 cm) long to use as guides to make the rockets. I am average height for a Canadian woman so I cut the long one about five feet long or 1.5 metres. For safety it is better to be taller than most of your young students. The lengths are not critical.Ĭut the pipe into five pieces: 5 feet or whatever height is comfortable for you to be able to blow into. Pipe cutter or have the nice folks at the plumbing store cut the pipe for you. Jennifer Kirkey 2015 Photo credit: Jennifer Kirkey CC BY0 Special thanks to Peter Hopkinson who shared this idea with us through the BCAPT (British Columbia Association of Physics Teachers) when he was an instructor at VCC (Vancouver Community College, Vancouver, BC, Canada). Here is the simplest, and most elegant, version I have found. There are many plans for simple stomp rockets using a pop bottle and 1/2 inch PVC plumbing pipe. You need one 90 degree elbow which retails for about $2. Any plumbing store or general home improvement store will carry this. A 10 foot (3.5 metre) piece of 1/2 inch (13 mm) PVC plumbing cost about $7. That includes buying a full bottle of pop of sparkling water. If not, the cost of materials is about $10 as of January 2019. Odds are you have these things in your home right now if you have done any plumbing recently. When that happens, just cut off the end of the pool noodle and attach a new bottle.Activity 3 – Stomp rockets Simple Stomp Rocket
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