Essay about Maxwell's Wheel

The objectives of the project were to design and build a car from a mousetrap and other materials, the main goal being to reach maximum displacement, and to use the design to demonstrate a personal understanding of the principles of physics incorporated. While our car did move and function, it did not reach a distance of ten meters, a set goal. Overall the goals, while not met completely, were at least somewhat accomplished.

Have you ever Wondered how a roller coaster works and what makes a roller coaster so much Fun. Well in this case you will learn whats forces are applied in a roller coaster and what might be some differences in a wooden and steel roller coaster. Before reading this you probably don't know how much science is applied in a roller coaster. What makes you move Out of the station and what makes you come to a stop in a station. Well if you are interested in learning something new about roller coaster stay tuned.

Before we did trials on the second day Taylor and I both realized that the front right wheel on our car was rubbing against the frame, therefore slowing it down. So we used the pliers to cut off a little bit of the frame in front of the wheel so it would have room to spin. Then we began our last set of trials.After Taylor and I finished these trials we

We can derive our equation from the equation of centripetal force by doing the following;

There is no place more jam packed with real life, physics examples than an amusement park. Silverwood Theme Park is a prime example of how physics is present in one’s everyday life. Two rides at this particular theme park can be found in many variations all around the world: wooden roller coasters. The two wooden roller coasters found in Silverwood are named Timber Terror and Tremors. These two thrilling rides are one of the most basic roller coasters in the park, yet there is almost always at least a twenty minute wait for these rides. The question becomes, “Why are these rides so popular?” Well, the answer is in the physics behind the two coasters.

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.

Introduction During this lab you will become more familiar with the concepts of torque. The purpose of this lab is to determine if the rotational equilibrium condition, Στ = 0, holds experimentally. Equipment Meter stick (1) - no metal ends Fulcrum (1) Clamps (4) Weight Hanger (1) Mass Set (1) Digital Scale (1)

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.

The device that displayed the best motion had three wheels. The reason that the device with three wheels displayed the best motion might have been due to the fact that it was the most secure out of the two. The device was much more even than the device with four wheels, holding the front tire in place and making sure it did not add more mass to one side than the other. The device with four wheels had multiple instances where the front tires would lean more to one side than the other. The average distance the three-wheeled device traveled was 888 cm while the four-wheeled device traveled 486 cm, a 402 cm difference between the averages.

The background research had talked about different types and sizes of wheel and the distance in can cover in a certain amount of time.

a) When the lever is winded up and all set for release the Mousetrap Car (MTP) has potential energy that will be used to accelerate the car. 2) When the lever is released the string is pulled from its ready position on the axle causing the level to pull the string causing a pulling force on the string by the lever. 3) When the lever is released and the string is pulled the back wheels of the MTC are beginning to move because of the potential energy that is now kinetic energy which causes rolling friction between the Mousetrap Cars wheels and the ground. 4) The MTC is now accelerating at a certain speed from it's point with the string being pulled by the lever until the spring is snapped, which then causes the MTC to

The history of the roller coaster can be dated back as early as the 16th century. Reading about the origin of the roller coasters sparked my great interest in their construction. I came across interesting facts such as how roller coasters originated in Russia . They were once called the “Russian Mountains” and were composed of lumber with a sheet of thick ice covering the surface (“Roller Coaster History”). Their infrastructure captivated my attention and I found myself pondering on how they managed to construct their calculations and mathematically figure out the force needed for the roller coaster to continuously move. Therefore, I have constructed a roller coaster through the use of polynomial and trigonometric functions by taking into account

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

The forces that are involve with the experiments are basically focused on the concurrent forces. The experiment also allows us to develop the condition of balancing or arranging the angles both sides on a force table. This laboratory experiment allows us to take the mathematical abstraction of a vector to make it tangible as possible. This experiment will look into two ways of