Mousetrap Car Club Research Paper

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.

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

One of the most fun projects this year, building mousetrap racers. With this project, however, challenges arose. Attaching the wheels to the axles, for example, presented a major problem. The dowel used was .75 inch and was too large to fit in the center of the DVD. Using washers and bolts was thought of, but they proved to be too heavy. In the end, bottle caps and screws worked to secure the wheels to the axles. The bottle caps were wide enough that when fitted against the DVD they wouldn't go through the hole. Another challenge was placing the mouse trap as far from the drive axle as possible without impeding the car’s movement. So an arm extension on the mousetrap was not constructed so upon snapping it would not hit the front axle.

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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.

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1.My assignment was to construct a mousetrap car. It should take from 4-5 days to finish, I finished it in 4 days.You could only able to use 3 pieces of wood, 4 CD, 4 pieces of rubber, 4 washers,4 axles,1 long stick of iron,1 string and1 mouse trap.

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