Mousetrap Car Lab

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.

During our first run Taylor and I noticed that the car was turning way to the left. So in order to fix this we started our car as far to the right of the track as possible. After our first trials we realized that we needed to fix our string. We needed to cut the string we had attached off of our car and make a new one. When we made a new one me made it a little bit longer than the car and only hot glued it to the hook, not to the frame. Our new string had a loop in the end of it so we could put that on the toothpick. So now we understood that the toothpick did have a real purpose and we couldn’t glue the string to the mousetrap. After we made these changes we ran our car three more times.

In this lab, we applied the concepts of velocity,force, acceleration, time, and distance in order to calculate which trial had a higher velocity. We also learned the relationship between each of the factors and how altering one plays a role in the other factors. For example, if we were to apply more force the velocity of the cart would increase, as well as the amount of time it took for the cart to go down the

The objective of the lab was to program a vehicle to continuously drive in a one meter square. The square was to be completed in less than 20 seconds, and only the wheel encoder could be used to navigate the vehicle. All of this was done by using the Arduino software tool and the Redbot library to create a program that would satisfy the given lab requirements.

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.

The two types of friction of the mousetrap car are rolling friction and static friction are the two types of friction that may affect the performance of the mousetrap car. The problem of the friction did I encounter and how do you solve them one types of friction i encounter was the static friction I had to take off some glue from the stick that had my wheels and to open eye screws. The factor did take into account to decide the number of wheels you decide to chose for the mousetrap car I saw a video of a car that had 4 wheels and it ran really fast, so I thought a 4 wheeled car would run fast or at least the four meters. What kind of wheels did I use in each axles I use tires as my wheels on each axles. I think the affects on using big wheels

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.

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

As a group our building process was very complicated because we had so many different ideas and opinions, considering that there was three of us. One part of the building process that we spent the most time consuming was the wheels. As a group had very different ideas but, we decided to have four wheels on the mousetrap car. Our reasoning for this was that more wheels on the car would help keep it rolling for longer. I also decided that we should use thin and light wheels on each axle. We ended up using CD’s as our wheels because they were able to go a longer distance due to less friction. Using heavy wheels would have added unneeded weight or friction to slow our mousetrap car down. So, due to Newton’s laws and outside forces such as friction

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

The purpose of my mousetrap car design was to design a car that was both quick/traveled and creative. The design of my car was one main piece of basswood and having two thin pieces on the side of that. Each of those side pieces would have two whole in them (at the ends) so that I would be able to stick an axel through them and put wheels at then end. I used a total of four wheels on my car so that the whole thing was balanced. I used lego wheels and lego axles because I knew that because the axles fit perfectly in the wheels, that the wheels would be straight and move easily. My wheels had a lot of tread to them which helps them maintain a high degree of friction and it gives them a better grip to the floor.

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

In this scientific experiment, we investigated how the type of motion (walking, slithering, and rolling) affects the speed of the wind-up toy. Based on my data, my hypothesis was supported. According to the data, the rolling wind-up toy had the greatest speed average and traveled at a rate of 8.58 cm/sec. The next fastest was the slithering wind-up toy which had an average speed of 4.37 cm/sec, and the slowest was the walking wind-up toy with an average speed of 1.05 cm/sec. Therefore, we can conclude that the rolling wind-up toy is the fastest out of the three wind-up toys tested. However, two factors that may have affected the results was the fact that many of the wind-up toys that walked did not make the required 30 centimeters and that