ME 107B, Spring 2008
WATER ROCKET LABORATORY

Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

 

 

GSI: Adrien Poulizac
Laboratory: 70A-1 Hesse Hall, 1-5pm (Monday/Wednesday)
Office hours:70 Hesse Hall, 1-3pm (Friday)
Email: a.poulizac@berkeley.edu

 

General Water Rocket Lab Material

updated on 01/28/08

Class Syllabus

meeting schedule, grading policy, assignment deadlines,
schedule of activities

updated on 01/31/08

Water rocket equations

equations of motion and geometry data on the experimental setup

updated on 01/31/08

Orientation slides

Slide presentation for orientation meeting

updated on 02/05/08

Planning report outline

Planning report outline, pictures and geometrical values

Updated on 02/05/08

Planning report grading

* Grading sheet for the Planning report

Updated on 02/14/08

Interim report outline

Interim report outline

Updated on 02/14/08

MATLAB geometry file

geometry of the bottle using splines

Updated on 02/26/08

Hints for Quiz

Presentation and hints for the Quiz

Updated on 02/26/08

Final report outline

Final report outline

Updated on 1/1/08

Final report grading

** Grading sheet for the final report

Updated on 02/26/08

Teaching Evaluation


 * This gradesheet is not definitive. It might be slightly readjust

** A more developed breakdown will be provided soon for the final report.

Useful Links

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2oRocketIndex.htm

 

General information

http://www.et.byu.edu/~wheeler/benchtop/index.php

 

General information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_rocket

 

General information

http://www.martinet.nl/wp-site/water-rockets

 

How to build a rocket

http://polyplex.org/rockets/simulation/

 

Simulator

http://www.et.byu.edu/~wheeler/benchtop/sim.php

 

Simulator

http://www.sciencebits.com/RocketCalculator

 

Simulator

http://www.web4business.com.au/aircommand/day18.htm

 

Inflight movie