Hi. The End. Just kidding. Gus here. In class we have been using paper projectiles. But just call it Paper Maths. Before I talk about everything have you read my amazing story about Stanley. I think it’s so good it can be published, moving on.
1 out of the 3 things I made was the paper helicopter, you have to know it. It is that thing where you hold your arm up and let it go. It should spin, if it don’t. It failed. The point of it is to make it stay on the air as long as possible. The people who chose to do the paper helicopter let it go from the top of the spider web. Then we saw how long it would take to land on the ground. Here are my times. 5 sec, 7 sec, 6 sec, 4 sec, 5 sec. That is how long they stayed in the air for. The total is 27 seconds. The mean (average) is 5.4 seconds. Before the next thing here is something about bottle rockets. Mine relates with the helicopter here is why.
We had to get a plastic bottle and customize it with paper and card. My idea was to make sort of a paper helicopter. It FAILED horribly. The card and paper flaps came off straight away. The way it flew up in the air is we had a pump that was strong and we put water in it. When we put enough air in it it the end of the pump came out of the bottle and it went flying up. SCIENCE!
On to the Straw Rockets. Straw Rockets are very small. We wrap a tiny skinny piece of paper around it then tape it. Then we modify the paper, blow into the straw and see how far it goes. Here are my distance’s. 2m, 3m, 2m, 3m, 2m. The total is 12 metres. The mean is 2.4 metres. On to the next thing which is the final paper projectile.
The Paper Rocket. It is the same thing as the straw rocket but bigger and flies further. You roll up a piece of paper then wrap another piece of paper around that. Then fold the end bit so when you blow in it the air doesn’t fly through it launches the paper. Every time I got 0 metres because I didn’t get up to making it.
The conclusion is my favourite thing was the paper helicopter because when it spun it looked pretty cool and how long it was still in the air. I made adjustments by cutting some extra pieces I didn’t think were necessary that were weighing it down. I think they made it stay up a little bit longer which is a good thing. With the straw rocket and the paper on the end. I made some little wings and put it on to them so it could glide. That failed. It just waddled around in the air. So that did not help the straw rocket at all. The paper rocket is exactly the same as the straw rocket but bigger. To make it better you could put it in a paper plane so it could glide along. That will work and be successful if you do it properly. In this task I learnt that many things interesting things can be made out of paper. It can be successful and failure. All together I think this task was pretty fun.
