Using a Model Rocket-Engine Test Stand in a Calculus Course

Using a Model Rocket-Engine Test Stand in a Calculus Course

Advanced Placement calculus students from Yarmouth High School, located in Yarmouth, Maine, built a model rocket-engine test stand in May 2000. This project was used to reinforce calculus concepts. In addition, it furnished data for a future freshman-science rocketry project. Students used the conce...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Mathematics teacher 2002-10, Vol.95 (7), p.516-519
Hauptverfasser: Weiss, Mike, Dodge, Brian, Harden, Kate, Hempstead, Amy, Lloyd, Jeff, Pott, Brian
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Arithmetic mean
Aviation Technology
Calculus
Curves
Educational Technology
Engines
Graphing Calculators
High school students
Mathematics education
Model rockets
Motion
Rectangles
Rocket engines
Rocketry
Rockets
Sensors
Spreadsheets
Welding
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Zusammenfassung:Advanced Placement calculus students from Yarmouth High School, located in Yarmouth, Maine, built a model rocket-engine test stand in May 2000. This project was used to reinforce calculus concepts. In addition, it furnished data for a future freshman-science rocketry project. Students used the concepts of the average value of a function, along with Riemann-sum approximation techniques and spreadsheet skills to determine the average thrust of a model rocket engine.
ISSN:0025-5769
2330-0582
DOI:10.5951/MT.95.7.0516