Ideas for spudgun science project?

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Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:34 pm

oh ok... I thought you were just saying that you now knoe my name..

anyways I didn't make finalist in science fair I just found out, I don't really care though I just wanted to be able to put it as an extra curricular on my resume.
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:45 pm

I have known your name for a long time... and your address ;)
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Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:18 pm

There's another neat experiment about judging velocity from how far a cannon rolls back when fired. Try to see if I can find that one again, (it's a college journal-type thingo I found a while ago...)
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:33 am

BC Pneumatics wrote:I have known your name for a long time... and your address ;)
:oops: oh ya forgot about that... just made my smoke bombs too, came out good.

geez whens the thread starter gonna post?
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:27 pm

How about right now?

I am going to ask my teacher tomorrow if he could locate a chrony for me. That would definitely make velocity tests a bit easier. I like the idea of testing the different power of fuels, especially between MAPP and propane. I've been wondering how much of a difference there is.
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:02 pm

hate to ruin the ending, but burntlatke.com will tell you the answer for MAPP and Propane.
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:05 pm

so you just dont look at them. Then you do your project anyway and get an A.
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:12 pm

You could look at them and still get an A. If he has 'been wondering' I don't know why he wouldn't look, and it would be nice to have two sets of numbers to compare anyway.
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:28 pm

but the temptation of just giving that data would be to strong for me, I don't know about him though.
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:26 pm

I just looked at that site and read up about all the results. The temptation was just too powerful but I guess I'll just have to suffer through testing it out for myself.
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