Team Yav Duct Tape Rocket
Monday, February 29, 2016
Mousetrap Final Blog
Friday, January 29, 2016
Mousetrap Car
1- a) Date: 1/29/16
b) Course/Section: Physics
c) Instructor: Mr. Yav
d) Team Members: Neal Bretschneider and Matthew Delgado
2- Executive Summary:
This project involves the creation of a car powered by a mousetrap moving a string to turn the wheels of the car. This will show potential energy turning into kinetic energy in a creative way. The requirements of the project are in the materials list along with a few added items to improve our car. Our goals are to protect our egg, break the other eggs, and achieve maximum acceleration possible.
3- table of contents
Project title
Summary
Photo example
Design description
Materials
Process
Analysis
Testing
Photo of final project
Video of application
Analysis
Conclusion
4- Design Problems and Objectives
The goal is to create a car that car travel only 1.5 meters down a ramp. The objective is for us to break or knock the other teams' eggs out of their mousetrap cars. If we fail to do this then the car that accelerates faster down the ramp takes the round win. We are limited to not including any objects that are sharp or dangerous, like knives for example. This competition is meant to resemble jousting from the Middle Ages.
6- Test Plans
To test out the car itself we will simply find a place on the ground and let it go and measure how far it can go. After that we will experiment with different hammer lengths to see which is the most efficient for greatest speed and acceleration. I would expect that a very short hammer would be best since our tires will be made from Lego tires. I am also sure that we will make at least the 1.5 meter requirement.
7- 1 mousetrap
Balsa wood
Steel rods
Hot glue and glue gun
Lego wheels
Aluminum sheets
String
8-Task Chart-
Car done by 1/30(working together)
Start blog/report 2/1
Check in on blog2/3
Finish blog/report 2/5
For design report-
Neal- do all the odd sections
Matthew- all the even sections of report
9- Use extreme cotton when handling Mouse traps. Do not use mouse traps to injure others.
10- References
Materials-(Neal)
1 mousetrap-$2
Balsa wood-$10
Steel rods-$5
Hot glue and glue gun-$0
Lego wheels-$0
Aluminum sheets-$0
String-$0