Design Plan-
My team decided to use one canister to hold up the chamber where the chemical reaction is going to take place. We did this so than the chamber can be 45 degrees angled and the cannon would be suffecient in height and length travel.We have the caps to the cans holding up the cannon for stability after the nerf ball is fired , just in case there is any back fire that should occur our cannon would still be in place.
The Gas Law-
The gas law i chose to use is Boyles.In his law volume and pressure are inversely proportional is exactly what we need for this project.The smaller the chamber the more pressure builds up making our cannon ball go a greater distance. We are using ethanol. The amount would have to be perfect. The slightest change could ruin everything because, we want oxygen to be an excess, but wrong measures and it would become the limiting reagent. In this cannon experiment we need ethanol as the limiting reagent, not oxygen.
The Chemical Reaction- This is the combustion of Ethanol in Oxygen
C2H5OH+302---->2CO2+3H20
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