A Study on Plastic Bottle Hybrid Rocket as an Educational Material

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560086
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Saitama Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Ishihara Atsushi 埼玉工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (50245247)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKAHARA Masaya 愛媛大学, 大学院理工学研究科, 教授 (20315112)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ハイブリッド・ロケット / 理科教材 / ペットボトル / モデルロケット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A small hybrid rocket was developed as an educational material using conventional materials such as a carbonate plastic bottle, polyethylene, aluminum, steel, nichrome wire and oxygen gas. Collaboration science classes were performed using the hybrid rocket in science classes of second grade of a public junior high school in Kumagaya and fun science classes in Matsuyama. As a result, the cooperation between a junior high school and a university with the utilization of the hybrid rocket as an educational material was very effective not only to achieve the purpose of science lessons and fun science class, but also in order to evoke the interest of engineering and science.

Free Research Field

ロケット工学