Does Mass make a paper helicopter rotate more?

Does Mass make a paper helicopter rotate more?

More paperclips means more weight! The heavier your helicopter is, the faster it will drop to the floor and as the forces of air act on it, it will spin even quicker! Keep testing your helicopters and see if they float down the same each time.

How do you make a paper helicopter go faster?

Try switching the direction of the folds for blades A & B. Make note of the direction the helicopter spins this time. Weight affects how quickly the helicopter spins, try adding additional paper clips and watch how the helicopter spins faster!

How do you make the slowest falling paper helicopter?

In this position, the air under one blade is pushing one way and the air under the other blade is pushing the opposite way. These two forces of air push the blades around and make it spin. The faster the blades spin, the less the air can get by, and the slower the helicopter falls.

What is a Robocopter?

A robocopter is a paper construction that spins as it falls when it is dropped from a height. Your task is to make a robocopter and then investigate how changing one variable or factor affects the time that it takes to fall. The design of a robocopter is shown in Figure 1.

How do you make a drop copter?

What To Do

1. Cut around the outside of the helicopter.
2. Cut along the solid lines.
3. Fold the side pieces in to form the body of the helicopter.
4. Fold one wing toward you and one wing away from you to form the rotor.
5. Fold the helicopter body up about 1 cm from the end.
6. Drop the helicopter from a high place and watch it spin.

How do you make a paper fly thing?

Paper Airplane DIY

1. Fold the paper in half vertically.
2. Unfold the paper and fold each of the top corners into the center line.
3. Fold the top edges into the center line.
4. Fold the plane in half toward you.
5. Fold the wings down, matching the top edges up with the bottom edge of the body.

How do you make a paper Mars helicopter?

It’s all part of the design process.

1. Cut out the helicopter. Cut along the dashed lines of the template.
2. Fold along the solid lines. The propeller blades, A and B, should be folded in opposite directions along the solid lines.
3. Do a test flight.
4. Compare.
5. Experiment.
6. Make a new model.
7. Reverse it.
8. Count the rotations.

Did the Mars helicopter work?

Ingenuity is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. On April 19, 2021, it successfully completed the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth, taking off vertically, hovering and landing.