Quick Graphs - Height


This is a plot of height against time. It was produced using a 4 x 6 font, running the water rocket simulator in a DOS box. If you are running it in a DOS box, you can vary the size of the font from the tool menu on the DOS box.

As the mouse moves over the plot area, the values for its position on each axis are printed on the graph next to each axis using the appropriate units.

You can see on the graph, the different stages of the rocket's flight. The yellow portion - representing the launch rod part of flight - is visible at the lower left part (0,0). After that, the blue portion represents the water thrust part - long here because of using a t-nozzle - followed by the air part of the thrust (cyan) and the red portion represents the coasting phase. Once the rocket has reached its apogee, the parachute starts to be deployed (magenta) and then the parachute opens fully (green) and it floats back to Earth.

The other quick graphs (including the statistics) can be accessed by pressing the initial letter for each page.

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