This project is a long project that nine weeks to complete. It is required to pass physical science. You will be assigned this project that will require you to build a car that is going to be propelled by a mouse trap. It is a certain brand of mouse trap. You have journals check ups every week, the journals will have anywhere to questions about energy and a picture of your project so far. They are actually beneficial, I didn 't do all of mine on time which will dock you points so you probably should. My goal for this project was to build a mousetrap car that would travel a total distance of at least 5 meters. I also knew this was going to be a hard project and that you shouldn 't put it off until the weekend before it 's due like I did. I think my car should be able to travel at least 6 meters if not more. The purpose of this project is to apply newton 's three laws of motion. The first law is that every object in a state of uniform motion tend to remain in the same state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. Newton 's second law of motion pertains to the behavior of objects for which all existing forces are not balanced. The second law states that the accelerate. His third law is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I thought that building a car that was small and had little weight would help me be able to build a faster car. I thought that it would help to also keep the mouse trap whole, but i found out that with different styles
There are three laws of motion. Nancy Hall states that Isaac Newton worked in many areas of mathematics and physics. In 1666, when he was 23 years old, he developed the theories of gravitation (2015). Otherwise known as Newton’s first, second, and third Laws of Motion. In agreement with HyperPhysics, “Newton's First Law states that an object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force” (HyperPhysics). Newton’s first law can also be recognized as the Law of Inertia. Essentially, what Newton's First Law is stating that objects behave predictably. For instance, a chair is not going to move unless a force is acted upon
The purpose of this laboratory experiment is to construct a mousetrap vehicle. The vehicle needed to go travel five meters. My partner and I build a mousetrap car that obtain a two-axle vehicle with four CDs making the produce optimum acceleration and travel.
We were given groups to design and make a mousetrap powered car that will roll as far as possible. This will be measured and be put into a graph. We will make three modifications to our mousetrap car over the course of the experiment. We have a variety of different materials, including plastic, wooden wheels and a dowel, screws, mousetrap, blue tack and a piece of string. Forces were acting in a negative way and a positive way on the car. Gravity was pulling the car down to the ground. Uplift was pushing up upon the car against gravity. Drag was also known as friction, holding back the car while it was moving. Thrust was in the cars favour, pushing forward against the force drag. There were also many forms of energy being used and being wasted like heat and sound energy. Potential energy was stored in the mousetrap, propelling itself forward. Kinetic energy was also demonstrated when the car started to roll.
Newton’s laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the connection between a body and the different forces acting upon it, as well as its motion in response to those forces. Isaac Newton developed Galileo’s ideas further and developed three law of motions. Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an object at rest with remain this way unless if it affected by a force. Also if an object that is moving will continue at the same speed as well as the same direction until an unbalanced force acts upon it. An example of unbalance force is when a scooter is being driven, the friction and air resistance is going at it, the weight of the scooter is keeping the weight on the ground, the reaction force is going up and the thrust of the scooter going forward. The force’s tendency to resist any change in motion is called an object’s inertia. Newton’s Second Law of Motion states that an object will keep on accelerating in the direction of an unbalance force acting upon it. The mass of the object and the size of the force acting depends upon the size of the acceleration., F_net=m x a, is the formula to work out the total amount of force acting upon an object. This formula can be
The mousetrap car, Versace, was tested multiple times to test how far it went. When constructing the car, the group members had different ideas, but all ideas were put into the construction of the car. The car was tested with CDs as wheels and then paper plates as wheels. Each time, when testing the car, the axle gearing had different measurements and distances. The group had finally gotten the best distance on the car. The group was also able to find the kinetic energy of the boat. Then the data from the tests were used to find the efficiency of the car. Overall, the car did very well.
Other discoveries such as his three laws of motion. Newton’s First Law of Motion states “any object in motion will stay in motion unless an external force is applied. Acceleration is made when force acts on a mass, the greater the mass of the object the greater amount of force it will take to accelerate the object. Finally Newton’s Third Law of Motion states
1. The force of the window on the bug because the bug is just flying, but the force of the window at a given speed is much greater creating the force to splatter the bug.
In conclusion, my 1st car was a bust traveling 9.8 cm/s, my 2nd car did pretty well traveling 35.86 cm/s, but wasn’t built very well and lastly my 3rd car was the most successful, traveling 50.16 cm/s. Over the time that I worked on this project my skills really did advance. In the beginning, I was clueless and now, with the materials, I could make another car in a day. I learned a lot from trial and error.
Final Conclusion Entry The purpose of my mousetrap car design was to explore how far my car would travel with the laws of motion, friction, potential energy, and kinetic energy acting upon the car. I designed the car to be light and long, with the car being 45 centimeters in length, having a lever arm of 24 centimeters, and a mass of 82.3 grams, because the car would use more string to rotate the axle when the car is longer and less force would be needed to propel the car with less mass. I used 4 wheels congruent to each other with a diameter of 7.5 centimeters. I used rubber bands fasteners to align the car.
Newton’s Third Law of Motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) mainly concerns friction, which is the energy or resistance resulting from two surfaces coming into contact with each other. Without friction, cars would not even be able to move properly without sliding around
With his 3 laws of motion, Newton changed our understanding of the universe. The first law of motion states that an object at rest or moving will not be in motion or stop unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This basically means that an object will stay in whichever position or continue to be in motion until an unbalanced force moves it or stops it. This law is also known as the “law of inertia” In the second law of motion, Newton states that acceleration happens when a force acts on mass. The greater the mass is on the object accelerated, the greater amount of force needed to accelerate the object. The second law shows an exact relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. This law is also expressed as a mathematical equation:
Design 1, the bike, was a mousetrap car based off of the engineering design of a bicycle. The bike would have two main wheels, one in the front and one in the back. The design would also consist of two more smaller wheels, one wheel attached on each side of the car similar to “training wheels”. This model was designed to be the safest of the three and was going to give our group a safe way of building a car that might not be the prize winning design but
Midway of junior year, I was given the opportunity to be a project captain for MESA. I was in charge of the mousetrap car group. The objective of this project is to build a mousetrap car that is capable of traveling the furthest distance up a 30 degree incline. I have knowledge and experience from a previous
Isaac Newton's three laws of motion were this, the first law was the law of inertia, it states that: “An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” The second law states that acceleration is produced when a force is acted upon by a mass, the greater the mass of the object, the greater the force required to accelerate it. The third law states that “for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.”
According to Sir Isaac Newton, every action has an equal, and opposite reaction. That’s not true. If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then nothing would be able to move, because it would be all balanced. If you lift your finger up with 1 Newton of force then gravity will push down on your finger with 1 Newton of force, then all the other forces are going to react by either pushing down on your finger with 1 Newton of force or pushing it up with 1 Newton of force, and your finger is going to end up staying at rest. If this law is really true then, how can we move? How are we here? How are things created? EVERYTHING needs some type of motion to be able