Abstract:For several years at Kansas State University, as part of the annual Engineering and Science Summer Institute (ESSI) Program, participating high school students have been assigned the task of designing, constructing and testing streamlined rocket models of their own design. The rocket models are constructed from readily available construction materials consisting of hardwood dowel rods for the rocket body and rectangular block balsa wood for the fins. Their assignment is to modify (streamline) and assemble thei… Show more
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