Apet Olga Alexandrovna
Job title: Senior teacher
Educational institution: MKOU "Elizavetinskaya Secondary School", preschool group
Locality: Novosibirsk region, Chistoozerny district, village. Elizabeth
Name of material: Research project
Subject: ""
Publication date: 21.05.2018
Chapter: preschool education
Municipal state educational institution
"Elizabeth Secondary School"
preschool group
Research project
Where do the balloons go?
Senior group:
Kolesnikova, Eva
Plekhanova Valeria,
Fomina Victoria
Project Manager:
Apet Olga Alexandrovna
Elizabeth, 2018
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………3
Main part…………………………………………………….5
The history of the appearance of balloons…………………....5
Questionnaire………………………………………………………...6
Experimental work…………………………………….7
Conclusion…………………………………………………….12
References………………………………………………………13
INTRODUCTION
Everyone knows that children are natural researchers; they love to ask questions.
In the process of any research, as well as any knowledge, the question plays
key role. It can be said without exaggeration that knowledge begins with
question. Yes, that's true, and this study began with a question.
Where do the balloons go?
Rationale for choosing the topic:
Once, when we went for a walk with the children, we took balloons with us,
inflated with helium, left over from the New Year's holiday. We didn't have time to leave
from the porch, as someone let go of the balloon, it was picked up by a gust of wind,
and the ball flew into the sky. All the children watched the flight of the ball until it disappeared from
mind. Everyone was very upset that they could not catch the ball, but everyone
I wondered where he flew off to?
Relevance: during preschool childhood, important in development
personalities
educational
activity.
is a pioneer, researcher. Everything is new for him: the sun and
rain, fear and joy. Everyone knows that five-year-old children are called
"why". They show keen interest in various research
activities,
experimentation. Child
independently conduct research, achieve results, reflect,
defend
generalize
results
experiments. How
more diverse
the more interesting the search activity, the more new information it receives
child, the faster and more fully he develops.
Every person has inflated a balloon at least once in their life. Happens
so that, unable to hold it in your hands, the ball flies away. It doesn't have an engine. He doesn't have
wings So the children thought about the question: where does the balloon fly?
Problem: Where do the balloons go?
Hypothesis: Let's assume that the balls fly into space. Is this true?
But is this right?
In order for a ball to reach space, it needs to be as strong as
a real rocket. We need to find out what kind of ball it is, what is it made of?
Objective of the project: find out where the balloons go.
2. Find out through experiments what “the ball can do.”
3. Learn to explain what you observe and draw simple conclusions.
Object of study: balloon
Subject of study– the strength of the balloon.
Research methods:
Studying literature on this topic;
Questionnaire;
Conducting experiments.
Observation.
Analysis of results
As a result of the project, children will know:
1. Where do the balloons fly?
2. How durable are the balloons?
3. When did the first hot air balloon appear?
As a result of the project, children will be able to:
1. Perform actions to organize experiments with a balloon.
2. Ask questions, look for answers.
3. See a problem on a certain topic.
4. Formulate a goal, plan tasks.
5. Put forward hypotheses and test them.
6. Conduct feasible experiments and draw appropriate conclusions.
We will share the results of our work with parents and friends.
MAIN PART.
1.1. The history of hot air balloons.
Who and when invented the first balloon remains a mystery to this day,
but it is known that balloons appeared already in ancient times. looked
the great-great-grandfathers of our modern balls are not at all the way they are used now
they had something else. Ancient Indian people of Mexico making balls
used animal entrails. They dried them in a certain way,
embroidered with patterns and filled with smoke. They used such balls in their
rituals .
were used
decorated
done
entrails
animals,
various
necessary
submissions
carnivals,
tool
In 1931, Neil Tylotson (American scientist) was released
The first modern latex balloon. And since then the air
finally
change!
round - and with the advent of latex, for the first time it became possible to create
innovation
immediately
application:
designers who decorate holidays began to create compositions from balloons in
airplanes,
From the encyclopedia we learned:
When inflated, the balloons become transparent. Balls are made from
foil, they are not transparent, but colorful.
air
huge
balloonists.
We also learned that balloons are inflated with air and gas - helium.
We found out what balloons are for. Balloons are needed
for joy!
Eva’s mom found a cartoon for us that confirmed our hypothesis:
Where do the balloons go?
1.2. Questioning.
Parents and children of our group took part in the survey.
The following questions were proposed:
Do you think a balloon can fly into space?
cartoons,
Have you ever taken a balloon ride? Name them.
Have you ever dreamed of taking to the skies on an airlift?
The result is as follows.
Of the 23 respondents, 10 suggested that the balloon could fly away
into space, others believe that a balloon cannot fly into space.
Everyone knows the heroes of fairy tales and cartoons who flew on air
famous
Winnie the Pooh.
Only 8 respondents dreamed of taking to the skies in balloons.
Can a hot air balloon fly into space?
Have you ever dreamed of going up into the sky in balloons?
Here's what we found out. Dogs have been spotted flying balloons
cartoon
Winnie the Pooh,
mosquitoes
Chukovsky “Cockroach”, old woman Shapoklyak from E. Uspensky’s fairy tale “Crocodile”
Gena and his friends.
2. Experimental work
let's try
check
air
strength
prove our assumptions.
Attention! The dangerous part of the experiments is carried out by an adult.
Experiment 1. Piercing with a sharp object.
Materials: inflated balloon, metal knitting needle.
We try to pierce the ball with a sharp knitting needle - it bursts.
Result: If you pierce a balloon with a knitting needle, it will burst.
Experiment 2. Trial by fire.
Materials: two balloons, candle, matches, water.
An ordinary inflated balloon was brought to the flame of a candle. The fire touched the ball -
it burst. But if you take a ball with water inside and bring it to a candle flame,
If the fire touches the ball, then nothing will happen to it! The secret is that
located
"takes away"
the surface of the ball does not heat up to a dangerous temperature.
Result: The balloon bursts easily when touching fire.
Experiment 3. “Ball, heat and cold”
Materials: two balloons.
withstood
tests. One ball shrank, the other burst.
Result: In the cold, the balls burst and decrease in size.
Conclusion: After conducting 3 experiments, we found out that the balloon does not
durable, which means it cannot fly into space like a rocket. But we became
Interesting,
properties
has
air
decided to continue experimenting with balloons.
Experiment 4. Ball – magnet.
Materials: Balloon, sheet of paper.
To conduct this experiment, we went to school, to the teacher.
Svetlana Anatolyevna said that an ordinary ball can work,
like a magnet. Only it attracts not metal, but charged particles. Need to
rub the ball on your hair, then bring pieces of paper to it - they
are magnetized. The magnetized ball also attracts hair and
can be attached to the wall.
Result: a magnetized ball attracts light objects to itself, but this does not
magnet, and charged particles, which we will learn about when we go to study
Experiment 5. Singing ball.
Material: balloon, coin.
If you rotate a ball with a coin inside, it will “sing.”
Experiment 6. Ball not tied with thread.
We also learned that a stream of air escaping from an untied
the thread of the balloon, after it has been inflated and released, is very strong - the balloon
flies around the group at great speed. And in the water a stream of air creates a fountain and
the water gurgles loudly.
experiment
showed
Experiment
inflating a balloon.
Experiment 7. Inflating a balloon using soda and lemon.
Materials: 1 empty juice bottle, balloon, 1 lemon, 2
tablespoons of baking soda, 100 ml. water.
We learned that if you add lemon juice and 2 tbsp to a water bottle. spoons
baking soda, and then put a balloon on the neck of the bottle, then the balloon
pouts.
Result: baking soda mixed with lemon juice reacted with
with which the balloon was inflated.
Experiment 8. A balloon filled with helium and simple air.
Indoors, a helium balloon always rises upward because it
very light. A ball inflated with plain air falls down.
Scientists believe that the maximum height to which they can rise
helium-filled balloons are 32 km (20 miles).
will not rise, as the gel evaporates, the ball will either fall or
Result: If you inflate a balloon with ordinary air, it will not fly far. Even
If a strong wind rises and at the same time picks up an inflated balloon, then
after some distance it will still fall to the ground. What if you fill the balloon?
helium, it still won’t fly into space, since the maximum height to which
rise
amounts to
located
distance of 21 million kilometers.
CONCLUSION.
As a result of our research, we learned the history of the appearance
air
ways
applications.
Found out
The balloon rises up thanks to the light gas helium. And the most
answered
interesting
air
space
u l e t i t
Why. . .
If you inflate a balloon with ordinary air, it will not fly at all. The ball will drop to
asphalt).
will rise
will pick up
na d u t y
in the air
u l e t i t.
Only the balloon that is inflated with gel can fly, but
scientists conducted experiments and found that the ball with the gel will interrupt its flight and
will stop at a distance of thirty-two kilometers from the earth.
withstand
exposure to sharp objects, they are fragile. Which means they are high in the sky
they simply burst from the cold, and of course, do not reach space.
Conclusion: our hypothesis was not confirmed. The balloon won't be able to
reach space because of its fragility and because it will immediately burst when it gets into
an area of cold air at high altitude in the sky.
Of course, it’s a pity that the balls don’t fly into space. But we found out that with
balls
fulfill
interesting
using lemon and baking soda. It's fun to play with them and make them different
figures, compositions and simply give to a friend.
Balloons are always fun!
The novelty of this work lies in the fact that it explains where they fly
Balloons.
Materials
use
directly
educational activities and classes of the circle: “Young Researcher”.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
1. Great children's encyclopedia. Volume 2. Physics: Master Media, 2006.
2. Galpershtein L.Ya. My first encyclopedia: Scientific. -pop. edition for
children/ - M.: LLC Publishing House "Rosman-Press", 2003. - 255 p.
3. Zigunenko S.N. I explore the world: Phenomena of the world: Children's encyclopedia./–
M.: Astrel Publishing House LLC: AST Publishing House LLC, 2003. – 396 p.
Prokhorova
Organization
experimental
activities
5. Rabiza F.V. “Simple experiments” - M. Det. Lit., 2002
Tatiana Beschastnaya
Project “Where do balloons fly?”
Where do hot air balloons go??
(for children 4-5 years old)
Beschastnaya Tatyana Vasilievna, teacher
Sadovnikova Svetlana Leonidovna, teacher
Relevance
During the period of preschool childhood, along with play activities, cognitive activity is important in the development of the child’s personality. In the light of modern pedagogical trends, this is not only the process of acquiring knowledge, skills and abilities, but mainly the search for knowledge, acquiring knowledge independently or under the tactful guidance of an adult.
N. N. Poddyakov in his study notes that “children’s experimentation claims to be the leading activity during the period of preschool development of the child.”
A preschool child is a researcher in himself; he shows a keen interest in various research activities, including experimentation. The more varied and interesting the search activity, the more new information the child receives, the faster and more fully he develops.
Develop cognitive motivation and activity of children
Maintain children's interest in research and experimental activities
Contribute to the formation of primary ideas about objects of the surrounding world, their properties and relationships of the surrounding world
Develop the ability to put forward hypotheses, compare and draw conclusions;
Develop the ability to find non-standard solutions in problem situations, come up with new ways to use ordinary things;
To help expand children’s understanding of the properties of gaseous substances and water;
Enrich vocabulary, activate children's speech;
Promote the implementation of independent creative activity.
Resource support project
Ready soap bubbles; ingredients for making your own soap solution
- balloons of different colors, shapes and sizes
Helium balloon
Necessary equipment for scientific experiments (depending on the choice of teachers)
Large building material
Materials for creativity, measurements, counting
Implementation stages project
1. Planning:
Collecting information using technology "Three Questions": modeling of a game situation, survey, observation.
Game situation.
The toy Pinocchio comes to visit the children with balloons. Buratino does not know what it is and what it is for. Children talk about what they know about balloons. Pinocchio asks children questions about the properties balls:
How to cheat balloon?
What is the ball made of?
Why are some people pouty? the balls fly away, and others fall to the floor?
By answering questions, children demonstrate the knowledge they already have, which they can build on when planning activities. New questions that children arise during the discussion are recorded by the teacher and are also used in planning. During the conversation, children, under the guidance of the teacher, select ways to resolve issues that arise. For example, in order to understand why the balls fly away, you need to conduct an experiment. And in order to find out what are Balloons and where you can apply them, you need to go to the library.
Families of pupils can also provide all possible assistance. For example, mom will help prepare a solution for soap bubbles.
Implementation project
Activity Center Activity Description Educational Areas
Mathematics Application from geometric shapes (oval and circle) « Balloons for the clown» Artist - aesthetic. ,
educational,
physical
Making a board game with dice "Bubble" (familiarity with numbers, ordinal and quantitative counting) Cognitive,
physical,
social – communicative,
Measuring the circumference of balls using a conventional measure Cognitive,
physical
Science Preparing a Soap Bubbles Solution (according to mother's recipe) using measurements for bulk products Social. – communicative,
cognitive, physical
Experiments using helium and Air Educational
Presentation of scientific experiments. Teachers demonstrate wonderful properties to children air balls Educational
Art Modeling from plasticine for panels “We are launching Balloons» Artist – aesthetic,
physical
Collective applique made from waste material "Flight to hot-air balloon» Social - communicative,
educational,
artistic and aesthetic,
physical
Drawing with soap bubbles with the addition of gouache "Soap Fantasy" Artist – aesthetic, cognitive,
physical
Drawing illustrations for poems "Bubble" E. Fargen, "Ball" A. Shibaev Artist. – aesthetic, cognitive,
physical
Literature and literacy Reading a fairy tale "Bubble, Straw and Shoe" Cognitive,
artist - aesthetic
Printing wishes on notes for the final event Social and communicative,
educational
"Word of the Day": throughout the day children write the chosen word in different ways (circling by dots, gluing letters, chalk on a board, etc.) Cognitive,
Recording a recipe for a solution for soap bubbles Educational,
social-communicative
Learning a poem for a dramatization by Zoya Alexandrova "Ball" Cognitive,
thin - aesthetic
Learning poems "Bubble" E. Fargen, "Ball" A. Shibaev Educational,
thin - aesthetic
Construction Construction air ships for travel to hot-air balloon(large building material) Social –communicative,
educational,
physical
Theatrical games Dramatization based on a poem by Zoya Alexandrova "Ball" Social –communicative,
educational,
thin – aesthetic,
physical
Water and sand Games with soap bubbles Social and communicative,
educational,
physical
Final event
Collective launch of balloons (flash mob, inflated with helium. Each child and parents invited to the event attach a note to the balloon with their own desire, dream. The balloons are launched in an open area by all participants at the same time. This allows you to admire for a long time balloons flying into the sky.
Expected results
Children become familiar with geometric shapes such as oval and circle
Children develop the skill of cutting round shapes
Continue to get acquainted with numbers from 5 to 9
Practice forward and backward counting
Learn to use a conventional measure to measure round objects
Children learn to set themselves a task and find a way to solve it
Children know some properties of gaseous substances and water
Children strengthened their drawing skills, including in non-traditional techniques
Children strengthened their skills in sculpting round shapes
Children gained skills in working in a small group
Children can use plots from familiar works of literature in story games
Children can recognize and find given letters, form a word according to the pattern
List of used literature
Goryachev A.V. Work on the topic. Guidelines. - M.: TOO "Gandalf", 1999
Organization of experimental activities preschoolers: Methodological recommendations / Under the general editorship of L. N. Prokhorova. – M.: ARKTI, 2003
Publications on the topic:
Topic: migratory birds Goal: expand knowledge about migratory birds; learn to draw branchy trees; learn how to create a composition of a drawing.
Late fall. Dark, lead-colored clouds floated low over the ground. It was gloomy, as if in the evening, although the day was in full swing.
Didactic game "Balloons"
Abstract of the GCD on FCCM for children 5–6 years old “Where do the birds fly?” Goal: To give children an idea of birds (appearance, habitat, etc.), their diversity; teach to divide into migratory and wintering ones.
After all, such a ball is an ordinary piece of rubber. The fact that it is round and beautiful does not change anything. And it turns out that we are throwing away this rubber solemnly, in front of all the people, and even with the hands of children. I think this does not add any benefit to our already disappointing ecology. Maybe it’s time for us to ask ourselves this question: is a moment’s fun worth completely turning nature into a landfill?” – wrote Nikolay Voloshchenko from Volokonovka.
According to Archimedes' law
Lifespan of a balloon depends on the material from which it is made: rubber or latex. Some burst quickly and noisily, others are able to live an interesting and, without exaggeration, rich life.
From a physics point of view, the flight of both a rubber and a latex ball is the same:
“The ball rises to the upper layers, cools slightly, and its volume increases four to six times or more with height. And the greater the height, the greater the volume of the ball,” says Physics teacher Pavel Galutskikh.– If a latex balloon is inflated too much, it bursts; if not too much, then its shell stretches, helium molecules come out of it, and air molecules, in turn, fall into the ball. Air is heavier than helium, and the ball becomes heavier and begins to fall down, where the air density is greater. So the ball gradually decreases. As for rubber balls, under the influence of the same factors, as they rise to a height and increase in volume, as a rule, they burst.”
Galutskikh calculated that at an altitude of 10 km, the air density decreases three times compared to the surface of the earth, and the volume of the ball, accordingly, triples. At an altitude of 12 km, the air density will decrease fourfold, and the volume of the ball will increase fourfold. At an altitude of 50 km, the air density decreases by 1,200 times, and here the balloon undergoes its final strength test.
“If the balloon is overinflated, it will burst, and if it is not overinflated, it will live for a long time, although helium, of course, will still diffuse through the shell,” explained Pavel Galutskikh.
50 km from the earth is almost space! And yet, an ordinary latex ball is capable of such feats.
Photo from the site https://malevi4.wordpress.com
Faster, higher, bolder
In 2007 schoolchildren from Canada launched a helium balloon into the sky, attaching a camera to it. The photo from the highest point was taken at a distance of 35.8 km from the ground.
Last year an American did a similar experiment Robert Garisson. His helium-filled balloon flew higher than 20 km, and also transmitted pictures to the ground, proving that this whole story was not fiction. The balloon burst in the stratosphere, and the camera returned safely to its owner via parachute.
The most famous balloon passenger can be considered Mishka, the symbol of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. There are many versions about where he flew and where he landed. According to one of them, Misha was found on Vorobyovy Gory, according to another - in the Moscow region, his six-meter shell was torn. Initially, two copies were made, and the one that did not fly was exhibited at VDNH for some time, and then the rubber product simply rotted away in warehouses.
His fame haunted many. In 1982, American Larry Walters, soaring into the sky on balloons filled with helium, stayed in the air for 13 hours. However, the landing was not very successful - Larry became entangled in power lines and thousands of Americans were left without electricity.
Russian Vitaly Kulikov soared into the sky twice on latex balloons in 2004. The first time he pumped hydrogen into 360 balloons and enjoyed the views from a height of 400 m for 25 minutes. The wind carried the naturalist 8.5 km. The second time he flew 64 km on helium balloons.
Photo from the site http://pulson.ru
In 2008, a Brazilian priest Adelir Antonio de Carli rose on helium balloons. He expected to fly 750 km north-west of his church parish, but instead, after eight hours of flight, the wind ended up 50 km above the ocean waves. Contact with him was lost, and the fate of the Brazilian is unknown.
No matter who and where they fly on balloons, the result is always the same: everyone lands somewhere. Including the balloons themselves. Beauty and romance are behind us, and the inevitable process of decomposition begins for the colorful scraps and deflated shapeless rags that were once balls.
Latex– a natural material obtained from the milky juice of the Brazilian Hevea plant. Therefore, it is destroyed without causing damage to nature; rubber balls are more harmful in this regard. And yet, small balloons that people release from time to time are much less hazardous to the environment than plastic bottles thrown away every day. If a thin rubber ball decomposes in a few months, then a plastic bottle will rot for about 200 years, and an aluminum can will last for half a millennium.
Irina Dudka
Most people who have at least once in their life launched a balloon inflated with gas into the sky, or seen others do it, are interested in the question of how far the balloon flies, what will happen to it, and where it will fall. Some even try to launch a balloon with a letter, which a person must find and forward to the recipient, so that they can find out how far the balloon flew into the sky. But think about the probability that this ball will fall in the city and that it will be found, and what is the probability that a person will want to send something to someone. Yes, the probability is very low, but we have heard real stories when balloons with letters were actually found and letters were sent to the person who launched the balloon. We recommend that you read
WHAT ARE BALLOONS INFLATED INTO THE AIR?
In this case, we are only talking about small balloons that are inflated with gas and launched into the sky, and are not considering large passenger balloons that can be flown. And so, in order to launch a ball into the sky and find out how far it will fly, you need to inflate it with gas. The lightest gas will be hydrogen, but since it is very explosive, it is not used to inflate balloons. After hydrogen comes Helium gas, it does not explode, is non-toxic and has a high lifting force, which allows it to be successfully used in inflating balloons. Of course, you can inflate a balloon with gas from a home stove, but the lifting force of such a balloon will be extremely small.
WHICH BALLOONS FLY THE LONGEST
In this question we will look at two types of ball. The first balloon will be latex, inflated with helium and coated with HiFloat, which creates a film inside the balloon and does not allow helium to penetrate the latex. Without HiFloat, a latex balloon flies for approximately 12-24 hours depending on the quality of the latex and the size of the balloon. The second balloon will be foil-lined and inflated with helium. According to preliminary estimates, such a balloon flies for about 14 days, since the foil does not allow helium to pass through and does not exert pressure on the gas, unlike a latex balloon, which inflates and creates pressure. To find out how long a balloon inflated with helium flies, we conducted tests, see the results below.
What is remarkable is that a balloon inflated with helium flies very far, one might say into the stratosphere. Due to the difference in pressure at sea level (on earth) and in the stratosphere, the gas inside the latex balloon begins to press and inflate the balloon with greater force, which leads to its rupture. The approximate time for a latex ball to reach the height at which it will burst is on average 2-3 hours from the moment of launch.
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Foil 18 inches Height 35, Width 35, Depth 16 cm1 day - 0 hours - 2.76 grams 1 day - 9 hours - 2.75 grams 1 day - 16 hours - 2.71 grams 1 day - 24 hours - 2.71 grams Day 2 - 32 hours - 2.70 grams Day 2 - 40 hours - 2.47 grams Day 3 - 57 hours - 2.40 grams Day 3 - 81 hours - 2.10 grams Day 4 - 104 hours - 1.90 grams Day 5 - 128 hours - 1.80 grams Day 6 - 152 hours - 1.56 grams Day 7 - 186 hours - 1.18 grams Day 8 - 200 hours - 1.05 grams Day 9 - 224 hours - 0.90 grams 10 day - 248 hours - 0.69 grams Day 11 - 272 hours - 0.48 grams Day 12 - 296 hours - 0.26 grams Day 13 - 320 hours - 0.10 grams Day 14 - 344 hours - 0.00 grams |
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Latex 14 inches Height 34, Width 27, Depth 27 cm(girth 86) 1 day - 0 hours - 5.57 grams 1 day - 9 hours - 4.59 grams 1 day - 16 hours - 4.29 grams 1 day - 24 hours - 4.05 grams Day 2 - 32 hours - 3.70 grams Day 2 - 40 hours - 2.76 grams Day 3 - 57 hours - 2.20 grams Day 3 - 81 hours - 1.44 grams Day 4 - 104 hours - 0.60 grams Day 5 - 128 hours - 0.15 grams Day 6 - 152 hours - 0.00 grams Latex 18 inches Height 41, Width 40.7, Depth 40.7 cm (circumference 128 cm), 1 ball - 24.51 grams |
WHAT IS THE LOADING CAPACITY OF A BALLO INFLATED WITH GAS
To find out what the lifting capacity of one ball is, you can use the following data, where 1 m3 of helium lifts one kilogram of cargo minus the weight of the ball itself. On average, the carrying capacity of one standard balloon inflated with helium will be 3-4 grams. To find out in practice what the carrying capacity of a balloon inflated with helium is, we conducted tests; see the results above.
HOW FAR DOES A BALLON INFLATED WITH GAS FLY?
To answer the question: “How far will a balloon inflated with gas (helium) fly?”, you need to know a lot of data. The flight distance of the balloon will depend on the time during which it will fly, and on the strength of the wind that will move the ball. A lot depends on weather conditions; in a calm weather, a ball can fly for a whole month and fall at the place where it was launched, and in a strong wind it can fly very far. And so, in order to understand how far a balloon inflated with gas will fly, you need to know the time of flight of the ball and the strength of the wind. Let us assume that the wind force throughout the entire flight of the ball will be 3 meters per second, although, in fact, depending on the altitude and weather conditions during the flight of the ball, the wind force will change both up and down. Now let’s calculate: 3m/s * 60 seconds = 180 meters the ball will fly in 1 minute. 180 meters * 60 minutes = 10800 meters (10.8 km) the ball will fly in one hour. 10.8 km * 24 hours = 269 km the ball will fly in 24 hours. 269 km * 14 days = 3766 km the ball will fly in two weeks. The calculation was made on the basis that the wind will blow with a force of 3 m/s during the entire flight of the ball, but since weather conditions are always different, it is impossible to assume that the ball will fly exactly that far. In practice, the ball can land a kilometer from the launch site, or it can even circle the entire globe, because the wind strength can be different. Below you will find our practical tests to answer how far a balloon can fly when inflated with gas.
In which direction will the balloon inflated with gas fly? Of course, the ball will fly where the wind blows, but since the wind blows in different directions in different areas and at different altitudes, it is impossible to predict in which direction the ball will fly, one can only guess. See practical tests below.
ATMOSPHERE PRESSURE AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS
As you can see from the plate, the atmospheric pressure above sea level is 760 mm. rt. Art., and at an altitude of 5 kilometers it is already 405 mm. rt. Art.. It turns out that if a ball flies to a height of five kilometers, it begins to experience pressure inside itself twice as strong as on the ground, and such a difference will most likely lead to the rupture of the ball. Therefore, if you want the ball to fly high without bursting, then you need to pump it with gas in such a way that it has a safety margin for a certain flight altitude. If you want the ball to fly far, try to inflate it with a safety margin of two times and in such a way that it flies no higher than two or three kilometers, otherwise the ball will burst and fall.
PRACTICAL TESTS OF WHERE A BALL INFLATED WITH GAS WILL FLY
How do we test? To find out practically how far a balloon inflated with helium will fly, you need to launch it and control the flight of the balloon. The hardest and most expensive part is controlling where the ball goes.
OPTION No. 1
You can control the flight of a balloon inflated with gas using a mobile phone with the option to track the location of the mobile phone enabled. It turns out that in order to conduct tests that answer the question of where and how far a balloon inflated with gas (helium) will fly, it is necessary:
- Mobile phone;
- SIM card with a positive balance;
- Connected service that determines the location of a mobile phone;
- Mobile coverage area;
- Packaging for a mobile phone so that it does not get wet in the rain
- The number of balls is sufficient to lift a mobile phone.
OPTION No. 2
In some ways it is similar to option No. 1, but instead of a mobile phone, a GPS tracker will be used with the ability to send SMS messages about your location if there is a GSM signal. This option is more expensive than the first option, but is more accurate in indicating its location.
---=== TEST RESULTS ===---
TEST #1
dated March 20, 2015
Technical data: Mobile phone weighing 61 grams, 1 latex ball 27 inches, two latex balls 18 inches and 5 latex balls 12 inches. All balloons are inflated with Helium gas and treated with HiFloat. Location requests were made every 10-20 minutes using the MTS "POISK" system. As you can see from the time and place data below, the balls were not always in touch, sometimes they did not get in touch and you had to wait a tedious 2-3 hours until the next session. We assume that at that time they were flying over a remote area where there is no mobile phone coverage. The approximate flight altitude of the balls at the time of launch is 1-2 km above sea level. It was very important that the balls did not fly to a height of 10 km or higher, since the temperature there is 50 degrees and at this altitude the pressure is much less than at sea level, which causes the latex balls to simply burst and the beacon to freeze.
Launch location: Chuvash Republic, Cheboksary city, Kalinina street, building 109. Launch time 10:20 minutes. The weather is sunny, no clouds, wind 5-7 m/s SW (which means blowing to the NE).
10:20 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Chuvash region. Cheboksary, intersection of st. Kalinina and st. Gagarin Yu. within a radius of 1000 meters.
10:41 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Chuvash region. Novocheboksarsk intersection of Shkolny Ave. and st. Soviet within a radius of 1000 meters.
11:26 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address of the Republic of Mari El, Zvenigovsky district, from Kuzhmar, 48 km east of the center of Cheboksary within a radius of 1000 meters.
13:25 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address of the Republic of Mari El, Mari-Tureksky district, Verkhniy Turek village, 109 km east of the center of Yoshkar-Ola within a radius of 1000 meters.
16:24 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Udmurt Republic, Igrinsky district, Komsomolets village, 76 km north of the center of Izhevsk within a radius of 1000 meters
16:38 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Udmurt Republic, Igrinsky district, village. Menil, 87 km north of the center of Izhevsk within a radius of 1000 meters.
16:53 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Udmurt Republic, Igrinsky district, Chemoshur village, 62 km north of the center of Izhevsk within a radius of 1000 meters.
17:22 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Udmurt Republic, rp Kez, 118 km north of the center of Izhevsk within a radius of 1000 meters.
18:05 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Perm region, Ochersky district, Nizovskaya, 91 km west of the center of Perm within a radius of 1000 meters.
19:49 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Perm region, Ochersky district, x Zimi, 93 km west of the center of Perm within a radius of 1000 meters.
20:27 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Perm region, Bolshesosinsky district, Yuzhny village, 97 km southwest of the center of Perm within a radius of 300 meters.
23:00 - The Sharik subscriber is in the same place as at 20:27, that is, the balls flew approximately 480 kilometers in 10 hours after launch.
TEST #2
dated April 07, 2015
Technical data: Mobile phone weighing 61 grams, 4 latex 18-inch balloons treated with HiFloat and inflated with Helium gas. Location requests were made every 10-30 minutes using the MTS "POISK" system. If during the first test we inflated the number of balls in such a way that the balls did not rise above 1-2 kilometers and did not burst from the difference in pressure, then in this test we inflated 4 balls, which lifted approximately 100 grams of weight, while lifting the mobile It was enough for the phone to inflate 3 balloons. That is, during this test the balls flew over 10 kilometers in height. The test results are roughly what we expected. The balloons flew about 100 kilometers, from the city of Ivanteevka, M.O., to the city of Yegoryevsk, M.O.
Presumably the flight unfolded as follows: see below. From the data received from the mobile phone, it can be assumed that initially the ball went rapidly up and forward in the wind, reaching a great height, communication with it was lost (from 06:26 to 08:00), having reached an even greater height, one or two balls burst ( strongly inflated) due to the pressure difference and the mobile phone began to go down. The phone got in touch at 08:00 in the area of the village. Gzhel, and ultimately, it fell in the area of the village of Barsuki, Yegoryevsky district, Moscow region, and all further requests for location were issued from this area.
Launch location: Moscow region, Ivanteevka city. Start time 06:00 minutes. The weather is cloudy, wind 3-4 m/s NW (which means blowing to the SE).
06:00 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Ivanteevka, intersection of st. Pervomaiskaya and st. Greenhouse within a radius of 900 meters.
06:11 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Shchelkovsky district, Obraztsovo village within a radius of 700 meters.
06:27 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Shchelkovo, intersection of st. Polevaya and st. Kosmodemyanskaya within a radius of 450 meters.
- There was no contact with the ball for 1 hour 30 minutes.
08:00 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Ramensky district, village. Gzhel within a radius of 1800 meters.
09:00 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Voskresensky district, Katunino village, within a radius of 4300 meters.
10:05 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Egoryevsky district, Barsuki village within a radius of 7600 meters.
17:00 - Subscriber "Sharik" is in the same place where he was at 10:05.
CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE LAUNCH OF LATEX BALLOONS
Having carried out two tests on launching a mobile phone on latex balloons, we can draw the following conclusions: if you inflate latex balloons in such a way that they do not rise above 2 kilometers in height and treat them with a special composition, then they will fly for about 10-15 hours, and the flight range will depend on the strength and direction of the wind. The approximate range will vary from 300 to 600 kilometers. You probably thought that everyone says that a latex balloon treated with a special compound flies for up to two weeks, but here it’s only 10-15 hours. Indeed, the balls fly for up to two weeks, the tests carried out above are proof of this, but they fly without a load and only support their weight. If you attach a weight, the ball will fly as long as it holds the weight of the load; calculate how much time it will take you yourself based on the percentage of the ball’s flight time and the loss of lift (see above). So, if you inflate the balloons in such a way that they lift a weight a little more than the weight of a mobile phone, then they will not fly more than 2 kilometers in height and will not burst, but they will fly no more than 10-15 hours. And if you inflate the balloons in such a way that they lift the weight of the load, at least 25 percent more than the weight of the load itself, so that the balls fly longer, then they fly high and burst, which is what happened with our second test (the weight of the mobile phone is 61 grams, the lifting force of the ball is 100 grams). At the same time, not all the balloons burst, but only those that were more heavily inflated. After which the remaining balls began to descend, so the mobile phone simply fell, but not much, since some balls supported it, and the speed of descent was low. It also follows that all the latex balls that you release into the air without a load fly over 10 kilometers in height, burst and fall.
Technical data: GSM tracker mini A8 weighing 19 grams (with moisture protection and garters 23 grams), five foil balls with a carrying capacity of 8 grams in each ball (40 grams total carrying capacity), Helium gas. Location requests were made every 10-30 minutes using the MTS "POISK" system. With such data, the balls rise over five kilometers, which means that the safety margin of each ball should have been more than three times that on the ground. This is because the difference in atmospheric pressure on the ground and in the sky is different, which means the force of gas pressure on the ball from the inside at altitude will be greater. For more details, see the pressure plate at different heights (see above). From the results obtained, it follows that the balls, having reached a certain height, began to experience gas pressure from the inside and the weakest ball burst, which led to the fact that the lifting force was no longer enough, and the tracker began to smoothly decline and fell.
Launch location: Moscow region, Ivanteevka city. Start time is 22:00. The weather is cloudy, wind 3-4 m/s SE (which means blowing to the NW).
22:00 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Ivanteevka, intersection of st. Pervomaiskaya and st. Greenhouse within a radius of 900 meters.
22:17 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Pushkinsky district, Pravdinsky settlement, 43 km northeast of the center of Moscow.
22:40 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Pushkinsky district, Nagornoye village, 49 km northeast of the center of Moscow
22:50 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, Repikhovo village, 62 km northeast of the center of Moscow
23:17 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, intersection of st. Shlyakova and st. Stakhanovskaya
23:35 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Moscow region, Krasnozavodsk, intersection of st. 40 years of October, etc. Parkovy
00:15 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Vladimir region, Alexandrov, intersection of st. Bolshaya Petrovskaya and st. Baksheevskaya
00:39 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Yaroslavl region, Pereslavl district, Kriushkino, 110 km southwest of the center of Yaroslavl, 05/14/2015, 00:39
00:50 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Yaroslavl region, Rostov district, with Debolovskoye, 67 km southwest of the center of Yaroslavl
06:00 - Subscriber "Sharik" is located at the address Yaroslavl region, Borisoglebsky district, Nikifortsevo, 48 km southwest of the center of Yaroslavl
CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE LAUNCH OF FOIL BALLOONS
Based on the launches of foil balloons, we can conclude that a foil balloon flies much longer in comparison with a latex balloon, but at the same time has a very small margin of safety. That is, a latex balloon has the ability to expand, that is, stretch, but a foil balloon does not have this ability. Therefore, when launching a foil balloon, the main task is to calculate the flight height of the balloon and inflate it in such a way that the balloon, having risen to a height, does not burst from the gas pressure from the inside. The risks in launching are such that if you inflate foil balloons so that they fly at an altitude of up to a kilometer, then their lifting force will be quite small and the wind will most likely blow them to the ground. If you inflate a foil balloon so that it flies at a high altitude, then you need to inflate so much gas that there is both lifting force and a safety margin remaining so that the balloons do not burst due to the difference in pressure at altitude.
Flew: (latex balloon)
- Moscow region, Ivanteevka
- Ivanovo region, Savinsky district, Fedorovo village
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TEST No. 6
Flew: (latex balloon)
- Saratov region, Romanovsky district, Alekseevsky village
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Flew: (latex)
- Moscow region, Ivanteevka
- Vologda region, Ustyuzhensky district, Zimnik village
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TEST No. 9
Flew: (latex)
- Samara Region
