1. A toy car starts travelling to the right in Figure 2 from the origin from rest. Figure 1 shows its driving force against the distance away from the origin in the first part of its journey. The surface to the right of the origin is frictionless. Assume no air resistance for this question.
The mass of the toy car is 200g, the cart is 150g.
a) When it is 5 meters away from the origin, it will collide with a stationary cart and sticks to it. Find the velocity of the toy car and cart after the collision.
b) Show whether the collision is elastic or not with numerical calculations.
c) When the toy car and cart is 10 meters away from the origin, it goes up a slope of 30 degrees, after another 4 meters up the slope, it hits a spring. Given that the spring constant is 40Nm-1, find how far the spring will be compressed by.
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Once it’s past the origin, there is a 9-meter rough surface with a constant friction force and an edge after that. Find the minimum friction force of the rough surface so that the toy car and the cart will stop before it goes over the edge.
2. A soccer ball is kicked off the ramp at 12ms-1, 5 seconds later, a basketball is dropped vertically downwards at 15ms-1. Assume no air resistance for this question.
a) Find how long it takes for the basketball to pass the soccer ball in vertical height after the soccer ball was kicked off the ramp.
b) How far from the floor were the two balls at that instant?
c) Will the soccer ball go into the goals on the full (without bouncing)? Show using
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.
If it moved at a constant speed, it would be straight because the rate of change would be the same. This car accelerated as it moved down the ramp.
The problem to this assignment is to find how many rebounds it takes to hit a
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.
A) 6.0 m, 26.0 m B) 26.0 m, 4.0 m C) 26.0 m, 26.0 m D) 4.0 m, 4.0 m
s, the trajectory of the car along a certain section of the track is given by
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.
6) Now click on ‘Circular’ on the bottom. Describe the motion of the ball and the behavior of the two vectors. Is there a force on the ball? How can you tell? Be detailed in your explanations.
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
Another factor is the balloon. As the air being pushed out the balloon creates a force pushing it forward. These factors help the car achieve the distance it reached. 5. Compare the results of the tests complete with both cars.
Limit them!) I am going to assume that the rubber ball will hit the floor the fastest because the ball is smaller then the form ball. I'm going to assume that I will drop if I drop the balls at the same time the rubber ball will hit it floor first because the ball is heavier than the foam ball. I'm going to assume that the foam ball is to big and lighter than the rubber ball so it will fall slower than the smaller ball. I assume if I drop both balls at arm length at the same time they wouldn’t hit at the
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
a) When the lever is winded up and all set for release the Mousetrap Car (MTP) has potential energy that will be used to accelerate the car. 2) When the lever is released the string is pulled from its ready position on the axle causing the level to pull the string causing a pulling force on the string by the lever. 3) When the lever is released and the string is pulled the back wheels of the MTC are beginning to move because of the potential energy that is now kinetic energy which causes rolling friction between the Mousetrap Cars wheels and the ground. 4) The MTC is now accelerating at a certain speed from it's point with the string being pulled by the lever until the spring is snapped, which then causes the MTC to
Final Conclusion Entry The purpose of my mousetrap car design was to explore how far my car would travel with the laws of motion, friction, potential energy, and kinetic energy acting upon the car. I designed the car to be light and long, with the car being 45 centimeters in length, having a lever arm of 24 centimeters, and a mass of 82.3 grams, because the car would use more string to rotate the axle when the car is longer and less force would be needed to propel the car with less mass. I used 4 wheels congruent to each other with a diameter of 7.5 centimeters. I used rubber bands fasteners to align the car.
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