Creativity of the mind is a powerful source, which shows innovation is creation. Engineering is the foundation to enforce yourself in applying discipline and knowledge towards a design. Our task was to develop a mousetrap car which was difficult basically it was something we had never performed before. The process of the design was based on attaining materials, designing the appearance of the car and even modifying the defects of the design. So our duty towards the car was to gather a vast amount of information to develop a efficient and convenient mousetrap car. So therefore we will explain the process to the end result of our successful winning mousetrap car.
The difficult process of the car was attaining ideas for the appearance and how the car would function. The ideas were developed by experimenting with the mousetrap and sketches. Then we developed from sources online that gave us more of a realistic an a visual appearance of the car. Attaining ideas and the overall construction of the car took about 17 hours and 50minutes. Our time on the development of the car was worth it because it lead to a potential well conducted mechanism.
The materials that were used were very easy to work with and were mostly household items. The materials were 2 cd’s, cardboard, 6 rubber bands, a mousetrap, string, glue, 2 pencils, used mini plastic car wheels,5 tie downs and 2 sticks(purchased). These were the materials that we gathered to develop the vehicle. They were all very practical and we didn’t have to spend a large amount of money to get a high quality product. We were mostly based on simplicity, how simplicity can be the ultimate sophistication.
The model of the car is very easy in how it works. The car functions by se...
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...veled 19ft 4in. In our last and final trial it traveled a total of 20ft. These were the distances on a flat ground. Our second race was on a 7.5 degree incline. our mobile traveled a total of 15ft on a 7.5 degree incline. To calculate our score we used a formula. [5(DF/20) + 5(DI/2) + (5-CF)] The DF stands for distance flat, DI stands for distance incline, and the CF stands for total cost to make car. To calculate our score we did 5(20/20)+5(15/2)+(5-3). So our overall score was 44.5.
So therefore the overall performance was a lot of fun but it was based on a lot of hard work and time put in the car model. If your determined to build something innovative given the time and effort anything can be accomplished, innovation is creation. Engineering is a potential course that primarily seeks an efficient performance by several structures by seeing outside the box.
design made the car very strong and durable that is one main reason you see many
A mousetrap-powered car is a vehicle that powers up and moves by the energy of a wound-up mousetrap’s spring. Its main components are the mousetrap, long metal rod, and the fishing line. In order to make the car work, the rod was wounded-up (wrapped) around the fishing line that had one end attached to the drive axle and the other end to the arm of the mousetrap, which pulls the snapper's lever arm closer to the drive axle. When the arms were released, the tension of the spring pulled the string off the axle. As a result, the fishing line string unraveled, causing the axle and the wheels to rotate, propelling the vehicle. There are various forms of energy that are involved with this car. First, it started off as potential (stored) energy that came from when the mousetrap was set by wounding the spring around the axle by the turning of the wheels, which caused the snapper’s lever arm to pull closer to the drive axle and the spring in the center was compressed. Since every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when the trap was released, most of the potential energy converted into kinetic (motion) energy, propelling the snapper arm forward. However, not all of the energy was converted into kinetic energy, as some of it was lost to the force of friction. Friction helped to spin the wheels and progress the car forward as when the string was pulled, friction between it and the axle caused the axle to rotate. In addition, the outside forces of friction caused the car to slow down and eventually come to a stop. Since energy cannot be destroyed, when the car came to a stop, the friction converted into thermal and heat energy.
We used cardboard, a mouse trap, tape, glue, CD’s, bottle caps, straws, skewers, and a long wooden stick for our project. Before starting the project, we researched other mousetrap cars that have worked in the past. We found out for more distance and speed we have to have a killbar extension. This is how we use the wooden stick. The reason this did so was because of the killbar, the string would be more and faster so the axle would spin faster moving the wheels.
After the steam engine was created in the early 17th century, many people and companies tried to take that same technology and apply it to automobiles. Nobody was successful until a British inventor by the name of Richard Trevithick created a multi passenger automobile that ran on a power source that was driven by a steam-propelled piston at high pressure (Bellis). Up until the mid 1900’s cars were only produced by specifically skilled blacksmiths, and were very expensive. There were only about 4,000 cars produced from the 1890’s to mid 1900’s (Bellis).
First, the parts of the car are made, and the frame is. placed on a conveyor belt. Workers are stationed along the belt to form an assembly line. As the conveyor belt moves. the car, each worker performs a task that they are specialized in. Each worker must perform their task quickly.
Hundreds of thoughts swarm through my head, as I think of potential car and launcher designs. It was the beginning of 8th grade. A new year of middle school, a new year of Science Olympiad, a new year of studying for my events, and a new year of challenges: my first building event, Scrambler. I’ve always been interested in science, specifically medicine, ever since I was 7 or 8. I read a book called When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Doctor, which inspired me to aspire to become a doctor. Ever since then, I’ve been exploring the field of science and medicine through a variety of learning experiences such as Science Olympiad, a science competition consisting of several events that cater to a variety of fields in science. This year, my partner and I were faced with the task of building a mechanical vehicle, powered by a falling mass, that is capable of traveling down a straight, level track with a barrier at the end while carrying an
The only technology in her car is the standard airbags. Her car didn't even come with a CD player so she had to buy one for it. To roll down a window, she has to use a crank which takes more time and effort than just pushing a switch with electronic windows. Her car does not have a Global Positioning System, making it hard for her to find the places that she needs to get to. At the end of the story she states that no matter how much technology there is out there, she gets through the day without most of it. The author is very inexperienced with technology but is slowly learning more about
I have learned quite a lot while constructing my mousetrap car. For example i learned that the friction that is active while the mousetrap car is in motion is rolling and static. Rolling friction occurs when an object rolls over a surface, in my case the CDs are rolling on the floor causing the car to move. Static friction occurs when one solid surface slides over another, for example my solid car sliding over a solid surface.Fortunately i didn't have very much problems related to friction.
The image of a self-propelled vehicle dates back around the early thirteenth century. Europe is the birthplace of the automobile, but it was adopted by America. Roger Bacon had a vision of cars being made without animals so they can be at astonishing speeds and maneuverability . About three hundreds years later, Leonardo Da Vinci rejuvenate Bacon's idea with hopes of creating a military vehicle. His idea was transformed into the modern day tank. The first step in making a self-propelled vehicle was taken by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot. He was an eighteenth century French artillery officer. "In 1769 he built and ran a three-wheeled carriage mounting a steam engine of his own design, with the idea that it might be used for pulling guns"2. It was very clumsy vehicle that was shot into the air when it reached the top speed of three miles an hour. Cugnot's vehicle provided almost no improvement of the horse. In the early years of the nineteenth century an American and British duo had began an automotive experiment. Richard Trevithick, a British engineer, and American genius, Oliver Evans created a workable but crude vehicle propelled by steam3. This early experiment was an improvement, but the railroads and stagecoach companies joined together. With this new combining of forces the new steam vehicle, the Orkuter Amphibolos, was brought down.
Laboratory Assignment 2 was a lab designed to teach our teams how to use the Engineering Design Process. By using this process our team will learn how to formulate a real world answer for a problem found in this lab. The problem we needed to solve was what is the best vehicle for transporting root beer kegs with limited time and only a ¼ gallon of fuel.
This paper is a look at the physics behind car racing. We look look at how we can use physics to select tires, how physics can help predict how much traction we will have, how physics helps modern cars get there extreme speed, how physics lets us predict the power of an engine, and how physics can even help the driver find the quickest way around the track.
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Engineering field focuses on problems through the application of creative thinking. As engineers, their goals and objectives
I want you to think back to what might be the greatest invention ever. Dependant upon how well you know your history you could possibly say the wheel, the car, the airplane, the television, the autonomous robot. All of these are great ideas that have different eras in history, but they all have something in common, these creations were all invented by engineers. Do not get the misconception that engineers have been around since the dawn of time but the concept of engineering itself has. Those great revolutionaries all had ideas and solved problems which are still qualities that engineers of this day and age use. Webster defines engineering as, “the work of designing and creating large structures or new products or systems by using scientific methods.” Those people created new products so they would today be considered engineers, but they are slightly different. What makes them different is the field that they would be considered a part of. The broadest one of the oldest forms is mechanical engineering, which is my future profession.
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