Stage	Key Stage	Subjects	Title
Secondary	KS4	Mathematics and Physics	Demonstrate the forces acting on Bloodhound SSC and explore Thrust as a concept tying in with Newton’s Laws of Motion.

 

 

Aims
To demonstrate the forces acting on Bloodhound SSC and explore Thrust as a concept tying in with Newton’s Laws of Motion.

Objectives
Build a balloon car
Conduct speed time experiments using the balloon car
Use the results to produce graphs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Downloads:

 

Bloodhound_KS4_Measuring_the_Thrust_of_a_Balloon_Car (Word format (260 kb)

 

Balloon car template (pdf format, 1Mb) to print onto card and produce a car like this:

 

See here for this template in use at the Imagineering fair at Stoneleigh