Mousetrap Friction

#1. I believe that decreasing the diameter of the front wheels will significantly impact on the distance that the mousetrap car will travel this

As its main function is to reduce the friction, and providing bearing support, its conceivable failure is detected by testing during maintenance. the probability of failure is either wearing off the rolling element, or misalignment of bearing which is a result of failure of bearing spacer. The system effect due to this is difficulty in cornering the vehicle, harsh

“Knobbies';, or knobby tires give the dirt bike good traction through mud, loose gavel, and

wheels have the same flanged design as the wheels of a train (the inner part of the wheel has a

“All the brakes were tested with a 180mm rotor and a 50Nm force on the lever (1N is the amount of force required to accelerate 1kg at 1m/s2), with the stock pads. To fully bed in the rotors and pads, the brakes were given 60 one-second pulls at 15km/h, followed by 30 two-second pulls at 20km/h. After a 30-second cooling-down period, the testing began.

The lab five B was about friction and how its always present. The purpose of this lab wat to explore how friction affect motion. There are three types of friction we discuss like air, rolling, and siding.

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

The main objective of this lab was to measure the friction force it takes to start moving a weighted block across a table, and as it continued to move. This force was tested experimentally in three separate ways. The force was then solved graphically and mathematically through six different runs per method. TALK ABOUT RESULTS HERE.

Friction allows the car’s wheels to spin across the floor without just sliding across the floor. Friction is also present in the gear box of the toy car. Friction is present because the gears have to rotate against each other in order for the toy car to obtain potential energy. The toy car only produces rolling friction, which is present when the wheels rotate against the floor. Rolling also appears in the gearbox. Friction while not energy affects the energy in the toy car in two ways. Friction causes kinetic energy to be lost while the car is moving. Kinetic energy is lost when the wheels rotate against the floor because the wheels are using kinetic energy to move. The energy is then lost when because of rolling friction heat is produced. In a shorter sense the wheels because of friction convert some of the kinetic energy into thermal energy (heat). Energy is also lost when the gears in the gear box rotate against each other. Some energy would be lost because of the friction of the gears some potential energy would be converted to thermal energy affect making less potential energy available. While friction causes a loss to energy, rolling friction allows less work to be able to overcome friction (“About Friction”, 2003). Friction while not energy plays a part in both energies that affect the toy car.

the road. How the vehicle skids depends on the coefficient of friction, or drag factor, between the

The tire slippage measurement signal, critical for controller performance, is both highly uncertain and noisy

The benefit that machine provides is called a mechanical advantage. Its amount is defined by actual mechanical advantage (AMA, includes force of friction). There is also an ideal mechanical advantage (IMA) but it does not take in account the force of friction which is inevitable in our world.