Acceleration Of A Toy Car

To create a mousetrap car and measure its performance. We will also see where force and energy is impacting on the performance, for example friction will impact on the cars performance as it generates heat and slows to car down thus meaning that the car may not travel as far as it should. Another force that is demonstrated in testing of the car kinetic energy, without kinetic energy the car would not travel at all.

Next, the independent variable was the sail car and shed car. The speed acceleration was the dependent variable. The constants marble distance of photogate the angel of the track.

When the mousetrap car moves down the track, the speed of the mousetrap car decreases, therefore my hypothesis was supported. At 1 second, the mousetrap car was traveling at a speed of 3.2 m/s. At 2 seconds, the mousetrap car was traveling at a speed of 2.35 m/s. At 3 seconds, the mousetrap car was traveling at a speed of 1.53 m/s. At 4 seconds, the mousetrap car was moving at a speed of 1.2 m/s. At 5 seconds, the mousetrap car was traveling at a speed of .98m/s. “A car will eventually come to a stop if just allowed to roll as the friction between the road surface and the wheels causes friction that causes the vehicle to stop,”(Examples of Rolling Friction). The evidence supports the claim because the wheels of the mousetrap car are moving

The roller coaster is designed according to safety regulations that prohibit the speed of the car from

The balloon powered race car will be powered by the balloon. The balloon will be blown into and the straw will be the source of the air going into the balloon and then pinched so there is no release of air, then release the air, measure the distance and speed of the car when air is released. This uses the three Newton laws and they are when an object is at rest it stays at rest and an object is in motion it stays in motion in a straight line at constant speed unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, the next is the acceleration of an object depends on the mass of the object and the force applied, the last is every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

For my physics project I am choosing to explain the concept of Mousetrap Cars and the physics that is central to it. The reason I am choosing to explain the physics behind this particular type of car was because I originally built a mousetrap car for an engineering class I had taken previously. However the car didn’t work to my expectations and wasn’t able to travel a distance of more than a couple of feet. I want to talk about why the car I had built did not travel a far distance and what changes I should have made to my car. The main topics that relate to car that I will discuss will be Newton’s 3 laws of motion, friction and the rate of the energy to release the car in order to determine the length and speed of the car.

The track begins with a steep climp, building up potential energy in the coaster car. The rest of the

A rightward moving rider gradually becomes an upward moving rider, then a leftward moving rider, then a downward moving rider, before finally becoming a rightward-moving rider once again. There is a continuing change in the direction of the rider as he/she will moves through the clothoid loop. A change in direction is one thing of an accelerating object. The rider also changes speed. As the rider begins to climb upward the loop, he/she begins to slow down. What we talked about suggests that an increase in height results in a decrease in kinetic energy and speed and a decrease in height results in an increase in kinetic energy and speed. So the rider experiences the greatest speeds at the bottom of the loop. The change in speed as the rider moves through the loop is the second part of acceleration which the riders experiences. A rider who moves through a circular loop with a constant speed, the acceleration is centripetal and towards the center of the circle. In this case of a rider moving through a noncircular loop at non-constant speed, the acceleration of the rider has two components. There is a component which is directed towards the center of the circle (ac) and relates itself to the direction change and the other component is directed tangent (at) to the track and relates itself to the car's change in speed. This tangential component would be

This model can be used to treat the roller coaster design as having only one height at a given time. The speed of a roller coaster that rolls down the second hill is very similar to the object that falls vertically the same height. The front positioned to the top of a loop, however, the back positioned at the bottom of a loop. Therefore, it does require taking more time to build up that speed and then the body begins to drop at a faster pace; therefore it reaches to the ground sooner. Since all parts of a roller coaster are connected, they all each have given the same velocity at any given time.

How does the incline of the ramp effect the time it takes for a car to go down a ramp?

Using the iNZight software I did this a 1000 times and it produced a graph where we can see the differences in distance between the original toy car and the changed toy car. In fact the when the toy car had a trailer on its back the car travelled a shorter distance while, when going by itself, it travelled a longer distance. This is due to the fact that the weight of the trailer pulls the car backwards which increases the friction and therefore reduces the speed. The graph shows us that the mean of all the results is of 52.45cm meaning that the optimum distance the car should go at is around that number. Even so the aim of a car is to travel the longest distance in the shortest amount of time, so 52.45cm is quite a short distance which would

     Acceleration and Speed are obviously the two defining characteristics of a fast car. Newton’s three laws of motion are an essential part in determining how fast a

The aim of the experiment is to examine how the acceleration of the car differs when the angle of inclination of the ramp is amplified and to record and analyse findings.

We just need to figure out a way to keep the wheels on the car balanced while it is going. We will try taping the wheels to the axle to fix this problem. Wheel alignment is very important because we want our car to go straight, and wheel alignment will help to prevent the car from collapsing. We also need to find a way so the axle on the car spins faster so we can move farther quicker. Right now the friction with the axle and the cardboard is making it impossible for it to spin fast enough to propel the car. We will try putting our axles through straws to fix this

The last factor is acceleration which definitely also effects how fast the object moves down the inclined plain. The acceleration is the gravitational pull of 9.8 m/s/s important factors in this experiment is friction and air resistance between the car and the inclined plain. Friction is involved as when the object slide down ramps, friction is involved, and the force of friction opposes the motion down the ramp. (Steven Holzner, 2014) The force of friction is proportional to the force from the ramp that balances the component of gravity that is perpendicular to the ramp. Air resistance also is an important part of this experiment as air resistance and friction are directly involved in the movement of the object and can slow down the process to convert gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy. ("BBC - GCSE Bite size: Gravitational potential energy (GPE)", 2016) Another force involved in this experiment is the gravitational pull. This is also another important force involved in this experiment and the movement of the car down the inclined plain. In the case of this experiment different weights was used to test the acceleration of the heavier vehicle to test the hypothesis and theme of the experiment. In this experiment Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) and Kinetic Energy (KE) both play an important