Personal Narrative: How I Shaped Our Car

Newton’s Laws played a great part into the motion and function of our car. His first law is known as the law of inertia. Both inertia and friction were the driving forces to slow down the car, limiting the distance and lengthening the time as shown by the most successful run of the car, five meters in around eighteen

One of the most important events that happened in my life was just recently, and that was buying my second car. This thought process was in the making for quite a while, considering that I was getting tired of taking my silver Hyundai Elantra in the garage every four months for repairs. For that reason, it made sense that it was time for a new car or a used one, I did not care which all I cared about was that it had to be a manual transmission. In addition, the fact that I outright hate going car shopping, I put it off and off until this past January. Since my mom had surgery that month, she was home and could go car shopping for me, well searching on the computer shopping. Since she was doing that, I did not have to worry about it and she knew what I wanted for a car.

Describe how your rocket car ran during the first trial run. (For example, did it travel in a straight or curved path?)

Saturday had big plans with my family and didn't realize that I was supposed to go to azteca practice. I was so emotionally crushed I felt like my soul was being crushed by an evil elephant from hell, quitting was the only thing on my mind at that point. The drive there was so depressing i felt like eating a bullet just the thought of canceling my plans for this gave me aids the car drive there felt like it was in slow motion and the fact that my friend benito was driving made it that much worse since he drives slower than my grandma, it seemed like everything was black and white and the that was blasting in the car seemed nonexistent. once we showed up i regretted going just that much more since only about half the dancers even showed up I

If you have more mass, you could be slow. And, if there is friction somewhere, you could slow down. Some errors were that the car fell off the ramp or counter, but those were just little. We didn’t have any errors while working on the

I was finished being created on October 28th, or at least that’s what my owners say. They took a foam piece and cut it out. They then taped two straws to the bottom of the box, and then hot glued two wood dowels in them. Then my owners hot glued barriers to stop the candles from moving to the side, but they could still spin. They then taped a balloon on the top. My wheels didn’t spin when I got tested, so they hot glued the straws to the foam piece, and un-glued the dowels from the straws. The dowels were loosely placed and the wheels were hot-glued onto the dowels. Then I got tested it again and the wheels spun nicely. I was ready to be tested. They set me on the ground, blew up my balloon, and off I went. At least that was what was supposed to happen. But instead, I just sat there. I didn’t have enough force or, I had a balanced force, so I wouldn’t move. Newtons is also a way to measure force. They took my balloon off the straw and tested me again, and off I went. They were so happy! I started out slowly, and then I accelerated faster. There was finally enough force to make it unbalanced against the air resistance. Overall there was not much friction that slowed down my car. When it rolled, there was no sliding friction. It had little static friction and

On the way to the car, we discussed the effects of winning when you lived with someone who was unable to lose gracefully. Rhonda dismissed the whole thing, mumbling something about garbage.

One phrase I never understood while growing up was “your life is in your own hands”. To be fair, I never put much thought into this phrase, as I was used to being taken care of. I took for granted that I would wake up happy every day because I didn’t know any different. Life wasn’t always easy but I had a good attitude towards it.

It was a cold rainy night much like any other until we pulled up at a stoplight and all the sudden the unthinkable happened. All the sudden my car was propelled forward with so much force I had no idea what just happened. I was so shaken it took me a minute to realize what happened, my mom was yelling at me thinking I had hit something but it was the other way around. I had just been rear-ended.

My car is a 1989 Honda Accord. It is a tan color that is chipped and needs a wax. The inside is a maroon vinyl that is faded from the sun exposure. The driver's door is dented from a kid hitting it with their bike. All corners of the bumpers are scratched. The driver door handle is also on its last leg. I have replaced half of whats under the hood already this year alone. It has no power steering that has built up my arm strength. Just like all thongs with age it squeaks as I drive that I tune out by turning up the radio. The radio can't be played about 19 or it just sounds like a person talking underwater. The air conditioning onlu works for the drivers, which is fine for me but none of my friends will ride with me because of this plus all

My hypothesis is if the amount of wheels on the car is greater than, the car will travel farther, this hypothesis supports more wheels will travel farther on a car. Our hypothesis was not correct because if you have more wheels on a car the friction will slow the car down and make it go slower. The car with the most wheels traveled at an average of 79 cm and that was the worst out of all of the cars tested, the car with the most average wheels traveled the farthest in the experiment.

So how can we modify our original car to make it roll down faster? We removed a hatch and fixed the downward slope of the vehicle on the front. We thought that with these changes, the car would go down the slope faster. The steps to complete this project is to first place the car at the top of the (200 cm) ramp. Have another person to time the car and another person to catch the car and write down the times.

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.

The needle is poked into the metal cap releasing air to flow out of the car. It matters about how you made the car. Because air resistance gets in the way sometimes. And also it matters because o go faster the shape also depends on weight. Less weight causes it goes more faster but least weight causes it to lift. My derby car could have won cause of the least weight but it was made with cheap wood which lead to the death of, “Shiny Metal”. There are two wood you can use which is balsa wood/ cheap

Car racing is a big part of torque; rotational motion in automobile racing is when the wheel turns through revolutions throughout the race. The motor rotates in what is called as RPM. Each time a tire rotates; the car moves the distance equal to the circumference of the tire. The distance a car