Question

Please Help?! I am doing a project over Hot Air Ballooning and I need to come up with a thesis. Could any one help?

Answer 1

could you be more specific? are you writing about the history of hot air balloons? are you going to design a hot air balloon?

Answer 2

Well i am going to build a hot air balloon and she wants us to come up with a thesis that will show how to improve the hot air balloons we have now. @gsoda

Answer 3

The hot air balloon that I am creating will be initiated with the use of a propane tank

Answer 4

the goal is to suggest improvements on existing designs, so we need to find out about hot air balloons, ideal gas behavior, and the complications in a real world situation.

Answer 5

Well we now as we increase temperature it increases the speed of the molecules and therefore decreases the density causing it to go up

Answer 6

could changing the material or what it is made of affect it?

Answer 7

right, given two ideal gases at the same volume (the volume enclosed by the balloon) and the same pressure, the hotter gas has a lower density than the cooler gas. that's what the ideal gas law predicts.

Answer 8

Okay. But what would i say in the thesis?

Answer 9

you are trying to suggest how to improve it? or is it okay just to describe the science of how it works?

Answer 10

I guess that I am suggesting how to improve it since that is what we have to include in the thesis.

Answer 11

I understand the science behind it, it is coming up with a thesis that also includes improvement.

Answer 12

to suggest how to improve a thing, we kinda have to read about the thing as it stands in this day and age, don't we?

Answer 13

even when we understand the science, i think the teacher also wants to read a brief description of the basics of how it works. it's okay to explain something to someone who already knows it as long as we do it well.

Answer 14

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_the_hot_air_balloon_been_improved_since_it_was_first_invented

Answer 15

i am more interested in your answer than what answers dot com says. i think the same goes for the reader of your paper.

Answer 16

Could I say By changing the material used to make the hot air balloon, the distance of the hot air balloon would increase?

Answer 17

hmm by distance do you mean how high it will rise? and how do you plan to change the material? what are the criteria for a good material? toughness? heat-resistance? we don't want the balloon to melt in the middle of our flight right? my wings are too small for flight.