how far can a water balloon be tossed?
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It's a heck of a lot of fun to find out how far a water balloon can be tossed without bursting on a warm day. Get two rows of people facing each other, say three feet away, and make sure each pair has a water balloon. They toss to each other and catch, stepping back each time until the water balloon breaks or there's only one pair left!
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throw them and see how far they travel
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throw it into space as high as you can, or just use that nitro
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assuming the balloons are spherical and have no mass and the temperature is about 25 C then 418 balloon might just do it.
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light line or use a flyrodand throw with the wind
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There are air tight containers and there are air tight containers.  A birthday party balloon is airtight and ok, an airplane isn't.  Location works the same way.  If you blow up your pop bottle in the middle of a gravel pit, and clean up the mess, probably few people would care.  In someones face would be a different story.  The real worry is what are you going to do next?  \n\nI'd say, in the proper setting, your co2 toy sounds like fun and fairly safe.  Go for it!
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waterballoons, not only can you have more fun with them but they cant harm you. Once when i used a helium balloon, my voice was like that for half an hour!! it freaked me out! Waterballoons are simply fun.
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This is actually pretty easy.\n1) Take a 2 liter bottle and poke a hole in the cap (with a sharp knife or philips head screwdriver) just a bit smaller than the diameter of a straw.\n\n2) Get a straw and force it through the hole in the lid. The straw should be made out of a fairly strong substance.... perhaps like a curly straw. The curly straws actually have straight sections. If the straight section is at least 3 inches long, it should work to go ahead and cut it. If the straw jams too tightly in the lid, it will obstruct the flow so just cut the hole slightly bigger until you get the right fit. We just want the straw to fit REALLY snug.\n\n3) position the straw so only a small length of it is pointing out the bottom of the cap (the longer portion should be sticking out of the top of the cap acting as a nozzle). Once the straw is placed, you could use a little epoxy or tape just to keep it from coming out.\n\n4) Get a small water balloon. Lower it into the opening of the bottle but DON'T LET IT FALL IN!!!!  While holding the opening of the water balloon above the opening of the bottle (with the rest of the balloon hanging inside the bottle), fill the balloon with vinegar so that it takes up about half the volume of the bottle. Once this is done, tie off the top of the water balloon and let it drop into the bottle. You may want to hold the bottle on it's side so the balloon doesn't smack the bottom of the bottle. Then slowly tip the bottle back up.\n\n5) Now, carefully fill the remaining space in the bottle with baking soda. (we don't want the balloon to pop YET)\n\n6) Put the lid back on the bottle and stick a piece of chewed gum just barely in the outside opening of the straw. This will preserve the baking soda by not letting any excess moisture in while the fire extinguisher is not in use. Make sure that the gum is not in too tightly or too far as we want to be able to remove it quickly.\n\n7) You are done!!!!! To use it just remove the gum and smack the bottle on a hard surface so the balloon breaks inside the bottle. When the balloon breaks, the vinegar and baking soda will mix, react, cause pressure, and the pressure will be released through the straw and in the direction that you point the fire extinguisher  : )\n\nHope this helps\nThanks\nJon
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if it's pony baseball then probably 54 feet
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The experiment which you have suggested (although incompletely) is a classic method of verifying Bernoulli's equation, and it consists of hanging two balls in the air by strings, reasonably close to each other and blowing air through the gap between them. \n\nSound as the logic behind the experiment may be, it is in fact quite simple to perform the experiment incorrectly. One way in which this can be done is by blowing directly at the balls, which has the undesirable effect of pushing them in a haphazard direction. Hence, while blowing, keep in mind that you do not let your blows land on the surfaces of the balls. The air should strictly pass through the gap. \n \nThe other reason could be heavy balls. \n\nYou are best off using pingpong balls, with their surfaces spaced about 5-7 centimeters ( 2-3 inches) apart.
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Lift under a liquid (or BOUYANCY FORCE) is defined as the weight of the volume of liquid displaced.  In other words, say a ball displaces 1 cubic meter of water.  The ball will be pushed back up with the same amount of force as the weight of that 1 cubic meter of water.\n\nSince water's density is 999 kg/cubic meter, we're looking at 999 kg of water (water is really heavy!).\n\nNow if we want the force of that water, we'd simply multiply it by the gravitational acceleration, 9.8 m/s/s:\n\n999 * 9.8m/s/s = 9790 Newtons (1 Newton = 1 (kg * m)/(s^2))\n\nSo the ball would be pushed back up with a force of 9790 Newtons.\n\nNow, the hard shell ball will (theoretically) not deform when subjected to the pressure of 10 feet of water.  So the *bouyance force* placed on the hard shell ball is easy to calculate, given the formula above.\n\nThe latex balloon, however, will shrink as it is exposed to increasing pressure, so the volume of water it displaces will be smaller. (I will not solve that problem here as it takes up quite a bit of space to show how much a balloon shrinks as it is subjected to increasing pressure.  Essentially it comes down to writing a spherical force balance and integrating over volume)\n\nConsequently, the bouyancy force exerted on the latex balloon will be smaller, and the ping pong ball would be forced back up through the water harder (and faster) than the balloon.\n\nAs an extreme, ever wondered what happens to helium filled balloons when they are released into the air and they float up until you can't see them anymore?  Since the atmospheric pressure is lower and lower the higher you go, the balloon expands until eventually it pops.  At that point, the popped balloon either falls back to earth or gets swept up into atmospheric currents, which can take it basically anywhere on earth.
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There was a story years ago about scientists experimenting with doing this exact thing.  They had an ozone maker under the balloon and let it off.  Can't find the article now though.\n\nSo yes, it is possible.  One theory of why its not being done would be cost - can we make enough ozone to make a difference?
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Assume spherical approximation for balloon:\n\nVolume of weather balloon at time, t is:\n\nV(t) = 4/3 pi r(t)^3\n\n(1).....dV(t)/dt = 4 pi r(t)^2 x dr(t)/dt  (chain rule)\n\nlet t be in minutes\n\nr(t)= .04t m,  that is (500/1000)*0.08*t m\n\nd r(t)/dt = .04m/min\n\nSo when r(t) = 90cm = .9m, we have from (1)\n\nd V(t)/dt = 4 pi (0.9)^2 x .04 m^3/min\n\n=0.4072 m^3/min
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AP Physics is phun, dont let anyone tell you otherwise.\n\nFirst, find the volume of the balloon.\nThe volume of a sphere = 4/3 pi * r^3\nyou are given the radius, so this should be no problem.\n\nOnce you know the volume of the balloon, find how much Helium and air it would take to fill it.\nYou could do this two ways, (the Physics way or the Chemistry way) either by using the molar masses of the gasses....or using the densities of the gasses, the density way is probably easier, but you either need to have those given to you or you can look them up and assume what temperature the experiement is taking place at.\nYou need to find the masses of each of the gasses.\n\nThe lifting force of the balloon will equal the difference in the upward and downward forces acting on it.  The downward force is the force of the Helium's weight, the upward for is the weight of the air that the balloon is displacing (we ignore the weight of the ballooon).\n\nIf you want to believe wikipedia,\nthe density of air at 20 degrees C = 1.204 kg/m^3,\n\none mole of Helium = 4.00 grams.\nAt STP 1 mole of Helium would have a volume of about 22.4 Liters.
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A very large AIR filled Balloon
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About 259 miles.  This is based on the diameter of a BB = 0.17 in.
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This would be an awesome inexpensive experiment. as I believe that it does with respect to the diameter of the bubble gravity attraction should be increased with respect to surface area, however this experiment should be conducted in an environment free from draft and circulating air flow.