Project history:
This project was very fun, but also very frustrating. We constantly had to change our car design. First, we had a mouse trap car design, but when our mouse traps broke we were forced to change our plans. Our second design was to make a rubber band car. That design wouldn't work either, it just went in circles and we couldn't find a solution. This lead us to our third and final design, a balloon powered car.This worked at first, but when we added the required extra weight the car hardly moved. This lead to us strapping on another balloon to our car. With slight adjustments, this worked great!
For our car parts we used every day items. We used CD's as wheels, wooden sticks as our axles, foam as our base, and lots of tape!
physics:
Average kinetic energy through five meters: 1.371J
Average potential energy through five meters: 0.1414J
Average thermal energy through five meters: 27.531J
Average power through five meters:4.7
Average potential energy through five meters: 0.1414J
Average thermal energy through five meters: 27.531J
Average power through five meters:4.7
Reflection:
This was my least favorite project so far, but it was still fun to build. This project was inferior to the other to me because it was very hard and we didn't have that much time to complete the task (make a car that will go five meters and then stop). This project was very similar to the Rube Goldberg Machine because both required loads of the trial and error process. I did love the idea of this project and hope we have similar assignments next semester.