Bibliography+Information

Garrek's Source: Mazza, David. "About Bottle Rockets." //Space Flight Systems Directorate / Glenn Research Center//. NASA. Web. 05 Jan. 2012. < http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/BottleRocket/about.htm>. Summary: This site, created by NASA, has everything to know about water rockets and was my main source. It has information on nose cones and fins, as well as simulations. It also has a 101 'course' and was very well written. It also has information on safety when launching the rockets and things you can graph and keep track of at different levels (inertia, height, speed, drag etc.).

Jackson, Tom. //Inside a Rocket//. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 2001. Print. This is a very short book (31 pages) but it had some good information. It had information on normal rockets (not water rockets), but it did still help me increase my understanding of rockets.

Waterboy. "Rocket Science." //Water-rockets Science for Hobbyist, Students, and Teachers of All Ages.// Web. 23 Aug. 2011. This website talks about water rockets for just hobbyists and schools. It does not really talk about the people launching rockets professionally like in the picture above. It focuses on safety and even has a simulation, but I can't access it so I can't really review that. Overall, this is a basic website with nothing to make it stick out, but it still works. [|.]

Majjck. "Water Rocket with Easy Launching Pad (simple!)." //Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY//. Instructables. Web. 01 Feb. 2012. [|.] This website just is a basic design for a rocket, and I really did not use it much, but the design seemed to be a good enough idea, but not the best. I did refer to it once in my research so I decided to include it in my bibliography.

Hamilton, Calvin J. "A Brief History of Rocketry." //Views of the// [|//Solar System//]. NASA. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. [] This is a site talking about the history of rockets, not just water rockets. I used it for my rocketry history tab, and it helped me get information. It had information all the way back to essentially flaming arrows, so well before actual rockets, just basically Ideas.

Tillery, Bill W. //Physical Science//. Boston: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1999. Print. This is our textbook, and I used it to better understand Boyle's Law, because this relates a lot to water rockets. I partially understood Boyle's Law before, but when I read more on it I understood more of how it directely realted to water rockets.

Angus Resources

Arnov, Boris. //Water: Experiments to Understand It//. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1980. Summary: This book was all about water and how to understand it. Although it had absolutely nothing to do with water rpckets it had a lot to do with water. IT had great experiments to understand water which i was a little tempted to try. It was written by an author and a //scientist// so i knew it had quality information. This book helped me understand water a lot better and provided a lot of great experiments to further increase my knowledge. Also, to understand water rockets i think we all have to understand water. Would i reccomend this to someone looking for information on water rockets, actually yes i would because it would further increase their knowledge as it has mine.

"Water Rocketry - About Bottle Rockets." //Space Flight Systems Mission Directorate//. Ed. Tom Benson. NASA. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. . Summary: This website was created by NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has a lot to know about water rockets. I did not use this website much because it has little stuff but not that much information. It has a 3D simulator so I spent a little time playing on it. I did use some information from this website but it mainly has an overview of water rockets. In my opinion it could become a great resource for any kid wanting to launch a water rocket if it had a little more information.

Benson, Tom. "Flight of a Water Rocket." //Space Flight Systems Mission Directorate//. NASA. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. [] Summary: This website also created by NASA provided much more helpful information than the last website. It provided a very helpful image that helped me understand the flight procedure of a water rocket. For more information see my research which i have used that visual for one of my visuals. It provided information other than the flight procedure also. It includes types of water rockets, helps with the water and air, and also helps with the flight procedure.

" Welcome to Nick's Water Rockets." //Water Rocket Portal//. 17 Apr. 2006. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. []. (I could not find the author and or editor of this webpage) Summary: This website which seems to be created by a curios man who wanted to know a little but more about water rockets was my main source for information. This had very good information on howe water rockets work which was its main reason for being created. It also helped me with the water to air ratio that is essential for the water rocket to work. It had some terms that I didn't understand so I had to look them up. Overall, this website reamains my most favorite resource for its abundant and wide variety of information. I would reccomend this website to anyone looking to go more in depth in water rockets.

Sparks, Major James C. //Winged Rocketry//. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968. Summary: Although this is not a very current book, it does a good job explaining how rockets work. It explains mainly winged roicketry and not water rockets but it had very good history on rockets. It also was not just very good on rockets but on airplanes also. It explained WWII air tactics. I read this book and thought it was very cool. Would i reccomend it to someone looking upo water rockets? No, but to someone who wants to learn about things that fly, YES!! This book was very good and i thought it helped me a lot. Sources

Books

Borgford, Christie L. //Holt Science & Technology Physical Science//. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Print. More General, drag aerodynamics, thrust, Newton’s third law etc.

Websites

“Water  //   Rocket   //  . Web. 14 Mar. 2012. . How it’s made, Pressure section.

"SICS." //SICS//. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. . Why Water section was done mostly from here (and from my background knowledge)

"Water Rocketry - About Bottle Rockets." //Space Flight Systems Mission Directorate//. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. .

More important info like reaction mass how it works,

"Rockets." //Soda Bottle Water Rocket//. Web. 14 Mar. 2012. <http://www.instructables.com/id/Soda-Bottle-Water-Rocket/>. Tools to make the rocket, how it should be made.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Meyers, Sid. //Civilization 3//. Sid Meyers. Web. <Sid Meyers Civilization 3>. Yes it is a game, I got information on rocketry history from this.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">"Main Page." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Mar. 2012. Web. 15 Mar. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/waterrockets>. General information. Drag, aerodynamics mostly things like that. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I wasn't able to cite all my sources properly because it would say something like unable to find the cite. So i'm sorry. And yes I only have one book.