Personal Narrative: My Mousetrap Car

Day one, my first day of building. Since of my reacherch the previous day, I had an idea forming on how my mousetrap car was going to be build for and look like. I was going to build my car for distance. Use CD’s as the backwheels. Have a longer lever for distance. These were what I was thinking, my idea being having the big cd wheels in the back and because of how thin and their light weight they seemed as if they would work very well for not slowing it down, but of course they would have needed ballowns around them to add a little bit of traction. my idea for what the car was goig to be build as was I planned on hvaing 3 wheels, and have them on there like how you would have the wheels on a trycical, with a leaver at leastslightly larger then the block of wood. Although, even though I did my reserch the previous day I was still confused on many trhings and had and asked …show more content…
My questions i had were How will the wheels effect how the mousetrap car works with big wheels in the front? With big wheels in the back? With all the same size wheels? I found the awnser for this by thinking about it and think of the purpose of the back wheels, and that purpose is to move the car forward, and if you have smaller wheels it will use more enrgy since they will have to rotate more compared to bigger wheels. and as for the front wheels, those are meant to direct and help stabilize the car, so it doesnt exactly rely on size but how stable and secure they are. Althopugh that did not exactly awnser my previous questions it gave me and= idea where to begin with the wheels. The next subjhect I took into consideration ia how long the leaver would be along with where it would have to be placed on the mousetrap. Since I had no idea where it was suppose to go I had to do some more reaserch and and thought about it and discovered that the leaver would have to