For our final project in physics we were assigned to create a moving car out of a mousetrap. In order to do that, the three of us had to work together and collect our thoughts to create a car that moves a certain length. We built a car using the following materials: mousetrap, 4 CDs, zip ties, BBQ skewers, straw, wire cutters, ruler, x-acto blade, scissors, cardboard, pencil and foam. Our first step in this experiment was deciding on what we needed to get and what we already had. Most of the list
A mousetrap car is a simple device which moves using the tension built up of a mousetrap that is spring-loaded. The mousetrap serves as the main and only power source of the car. There are several physics principles that take place as the mousetrap car is in motion, including energy, newton’s laws, inertia, and friction. There are many different ways in which a mousetrap race car can be created. Many different materials can also be used. However, the methods are all similar. In one way, four wheels
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
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. For my
Symbolism of Houses and Cars in The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is full of symbolism, which is portrayed by the houses and cars in an array of ways. One of the more important qualities of symbolism within The Great Gatsby is the way in which it is so completely incorporated into the plot and structure. Symbols, such as Gatsby's house and car, symbolize material wealth. Gatsby's house "[is] a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy" which
Car Statistics Coursework I am trying to work out what factor makes a car decrease in value the most. I have chosen a large sample of cars which have had a service history and erased some of the factors that I think I will not need. The factors I am not using are make and model, colour, engine size, fuel, MOT, tax, insurance, doors, style, seats, air conditioning, gearbox and airbags. I have also got rid of the cars that do not have all of the sufficient information. I am using how
Parked Cars Can Be Death Traps for Kids Imagine sitting in a hospital waiting room anticipating the results of the tests being run on your only child. You were lucky though; at least he is alive. You had no idea that he was in your car. You can not imagine how traumatic it could have been for him to be trapped in his own car. Finally the doctors come to tell you the news. He has brain damage, and he will never fully recover. He may never walk again and he will never live the life of a normal
“That is going to be my car one day”. Stickers are the main characters in import car shows. You can always get stickers of anything and about anything if your car is great, as any import car owner hopes it to be. To have millions of people admire your car as much as you do, your car will need to be unique by using manufacture logos. The manufacture owner then gives you their logos, turbo chargers, leather seats, exhaust systems, and so on. It is obvious that import cars are more for looks then speed
will be very fair-priced so that every person will be able to afford one of these luxurious, technological advances; not just the wealthier part of society will be affected. Every person will be transformed. Families will be able to travel in a family car and they will be financially able to purchase one of the greatest fabrications of all time. The middle class man will be able to enjoy one of life’s luxuries that only the rich in the past have been able to relish in. I am telling you, first hand, that
anymore. For the last generations, we take everything for granted. We are surrounded by technology and we don’t even give a thought how everything was created. Some things that have changed our world of technology during the last century are: telegraphs, cars, and television. We consider all this things a form of entertainment or even a necessity; when before they didn’t exist and people lived perfectly fine without them. The non-electric telegraph was invented in
A World Without Cars James Q. Wilson the author of the article "Cars and Their Enemies" briefly ponders the possibility of our world without personal automobiles. He speculates whether our current society would welcome the invention of the personal automobile into a fictitious world without cars. Wilson immediately answers no. Wilson knows, as many well-informed individuals and experts do, that the personal automobile is responsible for contributing to pollution, destruction of rural and wilderness
Disney Pixar’s film Cars (John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, 2006) plays with both stereotypes and architypes. Though, this film has no humans it instills human ideals of gender, love, race, and even class into these characters. Lasseter and Ranft specifically make use of stereotyping and archetypes to bring these characters to life. Not only does the use of archetypes provide a personality within each of these characters but the stereotypes also connote negative traits as well. Cars centers on Lightning
Muscle cars have always been a big in the United States such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, and Chevrolet Corvette. These cars have been some of the most popular cars for the past 35 or more years, but over the past 20 years, Japanese cars are becoming more and more popular. Many people who are into muscle cars despise these 'imports' and people who are into these imports have the same feelings toward muscle cars. These two types of car lovers have a strong dislike for each other and these
Cars One of the most important steps in becoming an adult is your first car. When you have a car, you don’t need to rely on other people for rides to and from where you want to go. You also learn a great deal, thus making you a more responsible person. I live in Putney, a small town in southeastern Vermont, but I worked and went to school in Brattleboro. Brattleboro is a slightly larger town about a half an hour south of Putney. Since we had to keep stopping to pick up kids, the bus ride
automobile has changed the lives, culture, and economy of the people and nations that manufacture and demand them. Ever since the late 1800s when the first “modern” car was invented by Benz and Daimler in Germany, the industry has grown into a billion dollar industry affecting so many aspects of our lives. There are more than 400 million passenger cars alone on the roads today. During the early part of the twentieth century, the United States was home to more than 90 percent of the world’s automotive industry
Purchasing a brand new boat: Are you currently thinking about buying a brand new boat? Regardless if you are the initial boat owner, and have been moving the waters for many years, you will find a couple of steps you need to take. As exciting because it is purchasing a brand new boat isn't something you must jump into. You have to choose which boat fits your needs as well as your needs. Consider what you should be utilising the boat for, who definitely are choosing you, where you'll be taking your
first advert they used, facts about the car, humour etc. Some of the facts that are used, are things like, what is in the cars; profesional, scientific gadgities like, ABS, trafficmaster etc. This makes the car sound good. The humour that is in this advert is mainly aimed at men. It is bacically a worst case sceneorio but because the deals on the cars are so good it doesn't matter. The second advert uses some different devices like, the camera shot of the car and the humour this time appeals to
The Pioneers and Cars With the popularity of movies like The Fast and the Furious and its sequel Too Fast Too Furious, import car culture has now become mainstream. What had started out as a small subset of Southern California car culture has quickly become part of American culture. In the same way hot rodding of the 50s and muscle cars of the 60s was a cultural lifestyle of the youths of that era, the import scene is now the new car culture of our generation. Car culture runs deeply in California
mechanics, I always helped my grandpa fix cars during the summer ever since I was 7 years old. I always loved cars, especially muscle cars, to me the Ford Mustang is my favorite car of all time. My family has always been fixing cars for a long time, from all the summers I have learned how to fix carburetors, crankshaft, camshafts and a lot more. My grandpa doesn’t know how the new cars work with the GPS systems and other new technological stuff in the new cars. I’ve learned from my grandpa, but I would
Technology That Changed the World The future holds many things, some of those things are new cars, and new airplanes, but there is no one that stops and thinks on where all of that technology came from. The 1970s was a decade that changed many things and especially because of technology. Technology helped peoples life be better by improving, Transportation, Space travel , Computers and Health and Medicine and many more new products. The technology really helped a lot of people and made peoples