Can you determine the equation for a rocket path?

Subject: Can you determine the equation for a rocket path?

Date: Mon Jun 2 23:59:07 1997
Posted by Pam Benne
Grade level: 10-12
School: Welch High School
City: Welch State/Province: Oklahoma
Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 865313947.Ph

Message:


As a high school mathematics teacher (Algebra I, II and Trig), I would like to 
add a rocketry project to my next year's curriculum.  Is there a physics 
connection to quadratic equations that high schools could use with data 
generated from launching homemade paper rockets?

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