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Water Rockets – Velocity

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Water Rockets - Velocity

If you’ve been stepping through the previous pages, you know we have worked out a force due to thrust from our water rocket here. To recap, we are basing all of our calculations on a one litre bottle being filled with 150ml of water and then pumped up to 25 psi.

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