Recovery Systems

Today my group Alice and Rose and I did the lab Recovery Systems. Our goal was to "test different parachute designs in order to maximize their drag while maintaining stability." We worked together designing a parachute using a plastic bag, string, hole punch reinforcing stickers, scissors, tape and a hair dryer. The first parachute we designed worked well. We experimented using different weights. We found that heavier weights caused the parachute to fall down faster and that lighter weights caused the parachute to fall slower. We tried placing the hairdryer in different places around the parachute. We noticed that placing the hairdryer underneath the parachute made the parachute stay up in the air longer. :)