Newton's 2nd Law of Motion

Newton's second law states that the acceleration of an object equals the net force on the object divided by the object's mass (acceleration = force/mass). For example, if you have a bouncy ball and a bowling ball and you throw them with the same amount of force, the bouncy ball with go further because it has less mass than the bowling ball. This is why we wanted to make our rocket with the least amount of mass as possible. We tried not to add too much tape to the bottle because even tape can slightly change the mass of the rocket. We also used a small bottle. We added only a small amount of clay into the nose cone but enough to help our rocket.