Advanced Placement calculus students from Yarmouth High School, located in Yarmouth, Maine, built a model rocket-engine test stand in May 2000. This project was used to reinforce calculus concepts. In addition, it furnished data for a future freshman-science rocketry project. Students used the concepts of the average value of a function, along with Riemann-sum approximation techniques and spreadsheet skills to determine the average thrust of a model rocket engine.
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