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Team Awesome. Stacy Whitaker Kolby Hamilton Tyler Card Eugene Epler. Project Overview. Wood for solidity PVC for controlled ball movement Mousetrap to trigger shooter Rubber bands for elasticity Magnets for added weight Pulleys to transfer weight. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Team Awesome
Stacy WhitakerKolby HamiltonTyler CardEugene Epler
Project OverviewWood for solidityPVC for controlled ball movementMousetrap to trigger shooterRubber bands for elasticityMagnets for added weightPulleys to transfer weight
A day of design A marble drops down a zigzag track The marble bites the trap’s cheese The mouse trap triggers the shooter The shooter knocks the golf ball into the funnel The golf ball collides with weighted magnets The magnets separate from the wooden board The weights pull fishing line The fishing line unravels the T banner
Physics!Potential Gravitational Energy at the topKinetic Energy at the bottom
Torque on peg from mousetrap
Elastic Potential into Kinetic
Conservation of Momentum
More Physics?Potential Gravitational into Kinetic energy
Momentum again!
Conservation of angular momentum
Mishaps and Design Flaws Originally built a device to launch ball with rubber bands,
but was too inefficient even for Mr. Goldberg. Advice from a smart TA helped at this point.
Couldn’t turn lights on in Estabrook 13; walked around in the dark for half an hour until Dr. Bennet came to save the day.
Very difficult for golf ball to gain enough momentum to knock weight hard enough
Didn’t have any food whatsoever during the making of the project; major design flaw.
That’s a wrap Turned out to be pretty fun We didn’t buy anything
Real life applications to EF concepts
Kolby loves to build stuff Engineering Fundamentals is
awesome
Things we learned: