Reflection

Q1: Did your cannon have intelligent design based in pressure, volume, and temperature? How so?
A: Yes, our cannon was made small to be able to build up more pressure and fire farther.

Q2: Which gas laws were being followed? How?

A: Boyle's law, aimed for higher pressure

Q3: Did your Observations follow what the gas laws teach us? What about your classmates?

A: yes, it was cold on the day of firing so high pressure would not occur; yes there's didn't fire to because of the cold.

Q4: If you had poor firing of the cannon, what do yo think caused that? What would you do differently?

A: Yes we had poor firing supposedly because of the cold temperatures, fire on a hooter day.

Poem Response to The Charge of The Light Brigade

The poem charge of the light brigdisastrous charge of British calvary against the Russians. One main thing in the poem was the soldiers will to charge into the dreaded valley of death to fight the enemy even though one of them had blundered. This was dangerous even though it only says he blundered, but he could of revealed the positions or something that caused them the brutal defeat that happened. "Soldiers and horses collapsed; few remained to make the journey back. "

English: Reaction To Overture 1812

I think that the song "Overture 1812" is about a battle during a war between the Invading French and the Russians. The cannnons that go off show the battle taking place and the celibration of the turning point in the war. The intriments start of showing the battle then they show the celbration. Ths is what I think about Overture 1812 by Tchaikovsky.

Reflection of building the Cannon and Fireing

The Building was fun, yet the true experience of fireing did not happen because of the cold weather. I think this was still a fun experience and i look forward to doing it again soon in April. 

Launch Formula

R=(Vo^2sin20)/g

g=the gravitational constant=32.2ft/sec^2

0=measure of the launch angle in degrees

R=the distance your projectile flies into the air. (Bouncing distance does not count.)

Vo=the initial velocity/what you are finding

The Math in Cannons

Math has a lot to do with cannons and the firing of them. The angle is one of the primary things that come into play. Me and my team researched the best possibly angle for our cannons. Me Austin, lindi and Eli both started out by making a starting angle of 33 degrees. With our research we found are angle was good. One peice of info said that for the best horizontal tragectory to use an angle less than 45 degrees. So we kept are angle and proceeded with the building.

The Firing of The Cannon!

We fired our cannons tuesday and it went over smoothly. To fire the cannon you fill the chamber with 1 pipette of ethanol and the you stick the ball in the mouth of the cannon, last you stick the lit wood splint in the hole in the top of your cannon and it fires. The ethanol releases gas which builds up pressure to eventually fire your cannon. We did though experience propblems since none of our cannons actually fired. The temperature did not support the gas laws so all we ended up with was burnt balls. O' well, we will try again in the spring!