Team Member Contributions
On this project I worked with Savanna Addis and Jared Liddle. They were awesome partners on this project. In the first stages; Savanna came up with the starting idea for our car as well as the main points of our test plan. In the days that followed directly after we adjusted the plans and drawings, but the work was still based off of Savanna’s original ideas. Jared ended up building our first car. This car was a great start to help us figure out some problems in our original idea. After trying to fix the first car, I made a second design that we ended up using for our testing instead of using the original car that Jared made.
Personal Write-Up For the Mousetrap Car assignment, the car Emperor Kuzco started as a standard template using CD wheels, wooden axles, siding, and lever, and a mousetrap. There were two cars that were constructed for this project, however only one was used for testing. …show more content…
The team was able to adapt to problems with the first car, as well as construct an entirely new car to help improve the timing and distance that the car was able to accomplish with the first design. Ultimately the team was very happy with the performance of the tested car compared to that of the first car that was tested even after adjustments. The second car was less susceptible to friction due to its new design. The kinetic energy and momentum, however, decreased in the second car due to its loss in speed. However, the team was more greatly focused on the distance it gained rather than the speed it obtained. So, overall it was successful. As far as efficiency goes, it was extremely low with only being at eleven percent efficiency. This shows that while mousetrap powered cars may look to be easy to construct and may seem efficient, but the cars that are driven around today are much better to get around to
On this project I worked with Savanna Addis and Jared Liddle. They were awesome partners on this project. In the first stages; Savanna came up with the starting idea for our car as well as the main points of our test plan. In the days that followed directly after we adjusted the plans and drawings, but the work was still based off of Savanna’s original ideas. Jared ended up building our first car. This car was a great start to help us figure out some problems in our original idea. After trying to fix the first car, I made a second design that we ended up using for our testing instead of using the original car that Jared made.
Personal Write-Up For the Mousetrap Car assignment, the car Emperor Kuzco started as a standard template using CD wheels, wooden axles, siding, and lever, and a mousetrap. There were two cars that were constructed for this project, however only one was used for testing. …show more content…
The team was able to adapt to problems with the first car, as well as construct an entirely new car to help improve the timing and distance that the car was able to accomplish with the first design. Ultimately the team was very happy with the performance of the tested car compared to that of the first car that was tested even after adjustments. The second car was less susceptible to friction due to its new design. The kinetic energy and momentum, however, decreased in the second car due to its loss in speed. However, the team was more greatly focused on the distance it gained rather than the speed it obtained. So, overall it was successful. As far as efficiency goes, it was extremely low with only being at eleven percent efficiency. This shows that while mousetrap powered cars may look to be easy to construct and may seem efficient, but the cars that are driven around today are much better to get around to