Water Rockets Links

(Note that I am not responsible for the content of other people's site or links from those sites.)

Other Computer Models

Free Downloads

• Clifford Heath's on-line simulation that you can use with your browser (you don't need to have any scripting languages enabled to use this as it is all done at the server end).
• Bruce Berggren's pages which include an Excel Spreadsheet.
• Tony Wayne's Mac simulation and now the same program converted for PC so now you've got no excuse.
• Mike M and Mike H's Java based simulation.

Commercial

• The NERDS http://www.nerdsinc.com/Rockets/index.html computer model.

Other Launchers

Before you commit yourself to a particular design of launcher, have a look around as the materials that you have access to will probably be different to the ones that I have (this is what led me to design my own launcher in the first place). The first three are commercial and the rest, you build yourself (or get someone else to do it for you).

• http://www.h2orocket.com/ for the BigFoot Launcher (Commercial);
• http://www.nerdsinc.com/index.shtml for the NERDS launcher (Commercial);
• http://www.knasa.co.kr/product.htm (second link on the left) for launchers including a 5 rocket launcher (I want one :-) (Commercial);
• http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3810/jelly.htm for Scott Chesnut's Swing Arm Launcher;
• http://www.geocities.com/wrgarage/index.html for Bruce Berggren's launcher;
• http://www.sonic.net/~rci/rocket Mike Powell's launcher;
• http://www.netspace.net.au/~bradcalv/launcher.htm Brad Calvert's launcher;
• http://sun2.lib.uci.edu/SEP/launcher.html for 2 litre pop bottles;
• http://www.osa.com.au/~cjh/rockets/cable.html for the Clark Cable-tie Launcher;
• http://www.geocities.com/rocketroos/ for the RocketRoos pages;
• http://redrival.com/rockets/ for Chris and Matt's Water Rockets;
• http://members.aol.com/aquarocket/index.html for the InterPlanetary Water Rocket Society; and,
• http://www.gecm.org.br/aafaa/Projetos-Roira.htm for Ricardo Menezes' Launcher in Portuguese.

Other Links

This site is listed (along with other teaching resources) on the Guardian's Education Unlimited site . . . The Water Rocket Index Every aspect of building, launching and recovering water rockets is contained here in precise detail, even instructing you how to fix a camera on the nose to record your creation's trajectory. The site is well illustrated, and if there's any better way of getting reluctant students interested in science than shooting a lemonade bottle 150 feet into the air, then I haven't heard of it.

Get your own sew on badge from John Darbyshire. John's email is:jdarby@akaMail.com

This site is listed at ednow.com at http://ednow.com/;
at Coolstop at http://www.coolstop.com/;
edufree.com at http://www.edufree.com/;
The Teacher's Corner at http://www.theteacherscorner.net/; and,
Free Stuff for Canadian Teachers at http://www.thecanadianteacher.com/; and,
is listed as a School Page Hot Spot at http://wwwtheschoolpage.com/
Along with other uses of PET bottles (including a boat), this site is listed on designboom at http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/plasticbottle.html.

You can also try the NASA Rocket Classroom Activities page which is part of the Learning Technologies Project at
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/TRC/Rockets/RocketActivitiesHome.html

Further sites (tell me about them so that I can put a link on here):

• Dave Johnson http://dogrocket.home.mindspring.com/WaterRockets/index.html .
• Bruce Berggren http://www.geocities.com/wrgarage/index.html for the record breaking millennium rocket.
• Dean Wheeler: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~jsngrp/dean/benchtop/ for slow motion photography of the first stages of launch. This site is amazing. If you want to see what happens to the surface of the water when the rocket is launched using a launch tube or you are wondering over what time or distance the transition from 100 percent water to 100 percent air occurs during thrust, look at this site.
• Billy Studley: http://geocities.com/rocketboy_999/
• John Cinderey http://www.john.cinderey.redhotant.com/

In addition to the US/Australian/UK Water Rocket sites, you can visit:

• The PET Bottle Craft Association Japan Home page;
• Scottish Water Rockets competition;
• Sung Gyun from Korea;
• another Korean site http://www.knasa.co.kr/;
• Ricardo Menezes' Brazillian water rocket site (in Portuguese); and,
• Ulrich Hornstein - tomy timers, PLP (in Germany) et cetera.

There is also Mr. Arnett's Science Class at http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/santiago/exciting.htm

Clifford Heath keeps the best page of links that I have come across so if you can't find what you want here, have a look at Clifford's site on http://homes.managesoft.com.au/~cjh/rockets/

Water Rocketry Mail Group

If you have problems, you can e-mail me or try e-mailing or joining the AWARS International Water Rocket Group on http://www.h2orocket.com/topic/newsletter/email.html or http://www.osa.com.au/~cjh/rockets/list.html.

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