Mouse Trap Car Project

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

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.

At 1 second, the mousetrap car was traveling at a speed of 3.2m/s and as the mousetrap car moved down the track, at 5 seconds, the mousetrap car was traveling at a speed of only .98 m/s. The difference between the speed at 1 second (3.2 m/s) and 5 (.98 m/s) seconds was 2.22 m/s, the speed of the mousetrap car decreased 2.2 m/s as the car moved down the track. If I would’ve done this experiment at home, I would’ve improved it by letting one group go at a time because the noise from the other groups around the room interfered with our data once or twice. An experimental error that occurred during the lab was that once, the line on the graph increased at a smaller rate than the other trials. This was because we released the mousetrap car too early and because the car was father away from the motion detector at the start the motion detector picked up the car’s movement from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. Extension suggestions I have for a new experiment is, I would extend the trials so we would stop recording the positon the mousetrap car when the mousetrap would stay completely

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.

The building process of the cars starts out with a piece of wood, students need to cut a chunk out of the back to make room for the gears connecting the rear motor to the axle. You could choose with your team any design that

Another force that was acting on the car was friction, friction was acting on the car because the piece of wood was very rough and had little ridges on it which was rubbing on the car which would cause it to slow down a little bit. The direction that the forces were going was pretty much everywhere, gravity was going down and friction was going forwards and backwards. The car did not work well with the friction because the friction would cause the car to somewhat lose control and go off the side of the ramp, the car did not work well with the gravity either because the gravity is what cause the car to fall and crack the egg. Some ways that we could minimize those forces is by making wheels for the car and making the bottom of the car smooth to reduce the amount of friction, we can't really reduce the gravity in the car but one thing that we could do for that is make the car really light but with a lot of padding for the egg. The reason I say we could make it really light is so that when gravity is acting on the car the car won't fall as fast and would somewhat glide down to the floor with a soft landing for the

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.

The car is based on the boxfish. The boxfish car has a cd of 0.19. Also, the car has a self-correcting stabilization properties. The experimental fish car has an interesting hybrid powertrain. The boxfish car can maintain a constant 56 miles per hour. Mercedes researchers noticed the car had a broad, boxy, low drag, and rigid bony shell. Inventors realized that the boxfish had an interesting shape that was great for the car and would allow nice car space. Also, they noticed that the fish turned into a car, would have nice high stability and great

Making the car and wheels too light caused problems, though, that’s why I paid close attention to the way my car was proportioned and chose four wheels on each axle all the same size. The reason why I chose four wheels all being a large size for each axle is because larger wheels cover more ground than what smaller wheels can do in the same amount of time.But, both sets of wheels will not affect how a car does at rest. When an object at rest (The car) will remain at rest, the more wound up the string on the mousetrap car is the more force that will be produced on the impact of the hatch releasing causing more acceleration, the reaction to the string causes the force to fly forward. But I also didn’t interpret the way I built my car the way everyone else had, originally my car would need the arm to be set to actually accelerate so that when you pushed down/load the arm, the string is would be compressed, causing the vehicle to accelerate forward. But that changed because of the reaction my car would have with the original setup, spinning in random directions because of how light my car was my second test

3. The steps for this project were simple. First thing I did was connecting the 3 pieces of wood together to get the body of the car and painted it. Than i got the CDs and attached them to the axles. Now it was time for the mouse trap, I cut the one side of the mouse tarp and attached

The toy has uses two main energies, Kinetic and Potential. Potential energy is made by the pulling back of the car. Kinetic is made when after the car is

Our prediction states that when the ramp is angled more, the car will travel faster and our data shows that when the ramp is 15 cm, the car travels the fastest. The data states that when the ramp is angled at a 3 cm height, the car travels at the speed of 34.64 cm/s and took 1.79 seconds to travel 62 cm. While the speed of the toy car is 213.8 cm/s when the ramp is angled at 15 cm. The ramp heights at 6 cm, 9 cm, and 12 cm all follow between the ranges of approximately 33.7 cm/s to 248 cm/s, each speed increasing as another 3 centimeters was added. The greatest acceleration is shown at 992 cm/s/s by a car traveling the ramp height of 15 cm and the lowest acceleration of 18.32 cm/s/s at a 3 cm ramp height. The data shows that when the ramp is

Newton’s first law explains an object in motion stays in motion unless a net force acts on it and an object in rest stays at rest. Our balloon car followed that law. While it was waiting to go it stayed exactly where it was, until we put the air from the balloon out onto the car. The car went across the floor until it became to a stop, because of the friction between the car and floor acting on the car. For this reason, I feel four features that you need to have a successful car are 2 wheels, something to hold the wheels together, a lightweight car, and having everything be positioned right. Although, there are some features you want to avoid. Such as, not having anything drag, bad type of tires, and using an excessive amount of glue.

     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

All the materials in our balloon car served a specific purpose. First, we used a water bottle due to the fact that it’s very light and we could easily poke holes through the plastic in order to put in the skewers for the wheels. Within the bottle, we used a dish sponge, is because it was squishy enough to put through the end of the water bottle and fill the hole we made. But, it’s also able to hold the skewer and straw in place. We used straws to cover the skewer and stick through the water bottle because the skewers in the straws were able to roll and spin without being stuck in place. Therefore, the wheels were able to turn. Then, hot glue allowed us to attach CDs to skewers. We also included bottle caps to cover the holes in the CDs and be able to fix the skewer and CDs together. For the third wheel, skewers helped us poke through the bottle caps glued on the center of the CD. The bottle caps again helped us cover the hole in the CD and keep the smaller skewer steady. Like the plastic water bottle, bottle caps were light and easy to poke holes through. For the wheels, we used CDs because they had holes through the center, so we could stick skewers through them with the help of bottle caps. Also, they were thin and light so that the car would travel faster, and the CDs have less surface area, creating less friction. We used cardboard contraptions to lift the balloon above the car so it didn’t hit the wheels. In addition, it was easy to