Mousetrap

Library Research The concept behind torsion spring powered alternative energy vehicles can be understood through a widely used high school physics experiment—the mousetrap car model (Roberts & Gonzalez-Espada, 2006, p. 15). The mousetrap model is very straightforward (Jumper, 2012, p. 137). A bow with a lever arm is installed in the model car, and this lever arm is then connected to the car’s rear axle with string. At rest, when potential energy is at its lowest, the lever arm is leaning…

concepts such as work (which occurs when an applied force moves an object.) torque (defined as a twisting force), energy and rotational inertia (an object's resistance to rotation). Experimental Design: My group’s testable question throughout the mousetrap car experiment was: If we add and subtract factors such as material, weight and shape, from the wheels of our car, how will it affect the distance the car is able to travel? The independent variable in our experiment was the material of the…

After the play The Mousetrap, the audience now knows that Claudius is guilty of murdering his own brother. When Hamlet walks in on Claudius alone and unguarded, he takes out his sword but hesitates when he finds Claudius in a position of prayer. Hamlet doesn’t want to kill Claudius in prayer because he will only do Claudius a favor by sending him to heaven for his sins may have already been forgiven. Instead, Hamlet decides to kill Claudius when he’s in the act of committing some other sin like…

What do you call the play? Hamlet. “The Mousetrap.” Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke’s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. ’Tis a knavish piece of work, but what of that? Your Majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us…

When someone is different from others, people alienate them. In both The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie and Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, the characters feel disconnected from others. In Night Vale, Diane Crayton is raising her teenaged son Josh after breaking up with her boyfriend, Troy, who is also Josh’s father. Josh sets out to find his father, whom he has never known. When Diane hears him asking around town about someone, she assumes he has a crush. However, he is…

1. How do you adjust the pulling force of the mousetrap? Adjusting the length of the snapper will change the pulling force—making something move as it goes in a certain direction. Making the snapper on the mousetrap longer will decrease the pulling force and a shorter snapper will increase it.…

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.…

What is a Mousetrap Car: “A small vehicle having its only source of motive power to be a mousetrap” (Mousetrap Car, Wikipedia) http://cdn.instructables.com/FGF/JUQF/F8J7C2ZW/FGFJUQFF8J7C2ZW.MEDIUM.jpg How a Mousetrap Car Works: http://mesa.sdsu.edu/Projectofthemonth/mousetrapcars6[1].jpg A mousetrap car doesn’t need batteries or fuel. It is powered by simply setting the trap and letting it lose. The power from the spring propels the car. A rod, or lever, (typically used to snap…

This involves identifying possible positions for products within each target segment and then producing, adapting and marketing them towards the target market” (Proctor, 2000, p.192). To distinguish Trap-Ease with standard mousetrap, Trap-Ease had been created with many features. For example, consumers could use Trap-Ease safely and easily as it posed no injury or poisoning threat to users, children or pets. Furthermore, it can be reused or thrown away without “clean-up” problem…

A mousetrap car is a car powered by a mousetrap. It utilizes potential energy, kinetic energy, and mechanical energy. Potential energy is a type of energy an object has because of its position. For example, elastic potential energy of a rubber band depends on how far it is pulled back from rest. The farther it is pulled back, the higher its potential energy. Once the rubber band is let go, the potential energy is then converted into kinetic energy, the energy of movement. The held end of the…