Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin

This project requires student to design and fabricate a water - rocket thrust measurement platform. The purpose of the platfonn is to measure the thrust produced by water jet. Which determine the optimum pressure required to produce maximum thrust. Parameter that influences the thrust are pressure a...

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Main Author: Jalaluddin, Sheikh Rizuan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/76826/1/76826.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.768262023-09-25T04:14:23Z Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin 2005 Jalaluddin, Sheikh Rizuan Rocket propulsion. Rockets This project requires student to design and fabricate a water - rocket thrust measurement platform. The purpose of the platfonn is to measure the thrust produced by water jet. Which determine the optimum pressure required to produce maximum thrust. Parameter that influences the thrust are pressure and water volume. However this project can be made as a teaching aid and a potential research tool. The governing laws involved are Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion which states for every action there will always be equal but opposite reaction and the principal of conservation of mass which relates refer Appendix D. This research methodology will explain the details of water- rocket thrust measurement platform. Empirical data collection is based on the water pressure relative to nozzle size and thrust produced. However comparisons mode on the experiment with the theoretical data shows some similarity of result values. The thrust measurement stand platform can be suitable for future research development and a teaching aid. It is found that the thrust produced is the product of the water expulsion mass flow rate with the velocity of the water jet out from the bottle through the nozzle which concludes this research finding. 2005 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/76826/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/76826/1/76826.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Wan Mohamed, Wan Mazlina
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Wan Mohamed, Wan Mazlina
topic Rocket propulsion
Rockets
spellingShingle Rocket propulsion
Rockets
Jalaluddin, Sheikh Rizuan
Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin
description This project requires student to design and fabricate a water - rocket thrust measurement platform. The purpose of the platfonn is to measure the thrust produced by water jet. Which determine the optimum pressure required to produce maximum thrust. Parameter that influences the thrust are pressure and water volume. However this project can be made as a teaching aid and a potential research tool. The governing laws involved are Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion which states for every action there will always be equal but opposite reaction and the principal of conservation of mass which relates refer Appendix D. This research methodology will explain the details of water- rocket thrust measurement platform. Empirical data collection is based on the water pressure relative to nozzle size and thrust produced. However comparisons mode on the experiment with the theoretical data shows some similarity of result values. The thrust measurement stand platform can be suitable for future research development and a teaching aid. It is found that the thrust produced is the product of the water expulsion mass flow rate with the velocity of the water jet out from the bottle through the nozzle which concludes this research finding.
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author Jalaluddin, Sheikh Rizuan
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title Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin
title_short Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin
title_full Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin
title_fullStr Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin
title_full_unstemmed Development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / Sheikh Rizuan Jalaluddin
title_sort development of water - rocket thrust measurement stand / sheikh rizuan jalaluddin
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate 2005
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/76826/1/76826.pdf
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