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Thursday, 18 May 2017

Vortex Cannon

https://youtu.be/inrzvYKYlY
Aim:
I want to find out if the vortex cannon smoke ring travel can knock down how-may-cups

Equipment:
Garbage Can
plastic bags
Duct tape
Craft Knife
Fog Machine
Plastic Knives

Method:
Step 1: Collect Equipment.







Step 2: Use the crafting knife to make a medium sized hole at the bottom of the garbage can.








Step 3: When the hole is cut, we then use the plastic bags to cover the open hole and wrap it with duct tape.









Step 4: We then build a pyramid out of plastic cups








Step 5: finally we fill the garbage can with  fog, before testing our Vortex Cannon.



Attempt
Size of hit
Number of cups
1
Medium
3
2
large
6
3
small
3


 On our first Attempt, Breanna stood a bit close and made a medium hit on the cannon causing for only 3 cups to fall.



On the second, Breanna went further and used a large hit on the vortex cannon. the impact was so strong that 6 plastic cups fell.







For our last one, Breanna stood more further and used a small hit. since the force was too weak only 3 cups fell.







(1) Our Aim was achieved, since we finally found out how many cups we could knock down.

(2) Throughout our experiments, we worked well together so we all managed to test and to discover the answers to our aim. The method, we worked as a team and in the end we made a vortex cannon with everyone's participation.

3) Though the only problem was that. the smoke machine couldn't be used caused it wouldn't poof out any smoke. So in the end we used the air to test our findings, it was a success!

(4) next time, we probably could've used smoke instead of air. That would be a great experiment,seeing the smoke rings come out and hit the cups and all. But using the air was fine too, since we finally achieved our aim.







1 comment:

  1. Hi Julianna, I like how you explain the details very well, I couldn't think of anything you could work on.

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