Winter Survival Project
Our lab report:
The purpose of this project was to teach us how to formulate and test an experiment of our own design. Our project was studying the insulation properties of snow. My main roles were helping in the building of the snow forts and executing the tests, as well as writing the procedure for the tests. I think that this test went well, and we got two sets of solid data.
Rube Goldberg Project
In this project, we have been studying the physics of motion and applying these concepts in making a Rube Goldberg machine. We have examined the physics of different steps in our rube and evaluating how efficient they are. Our rube prepared and blended a smoothie.
Below is a diagram of all the steps in our rube.
Below is a diagram of all the steps in our rube.
Personally what was my biggest contribution to the project?
I took the rube home during thanksgiving break as well as constructed a major part of it at home over the course of a couple of weekends. That made it so that we could finish on time as well as have a complex and very cool rube goldberg.
What one physics concept from your analysis is most important to the overall function of your rube.
That gravitational potential energy = the mass of the object times the height above zero it is multiplied by 9.8. This is very useful and I think that I will use it again in future projects.
We used a lot of maneuvering of gravitational energy. Most of our steps weren’t very efficient and the marble track got a whopping 53% efficiency. This is probably because we were hand crafting each and every piece of the rube and thus were prone for error that you wouldn’t typically see in the very efficient pieces of work manufactured in a factory.
I took the rube home during thanksgiving break as well as constructed a major part of it at home over the course of a couple of weekends. That made it so that we could finish on time as well as have a complex and very cool rube goldberg.
What one physics concept from your analysis is most important to the overall function of your rube.
That gravitational potential energy = the mass of the object times the height above zero it is multiplied by 9.8. This is very useful and I think that I will use it again in future projects.
We used a lot of maneuvering of gravitational energy. Most of our steps weren’t very efficient and the marble track got a whopping 53% efficiency. This is probably because we were hand crafting each and every piece of the rube and thus were prone for error that you wouldn’t typically see in the very efficient pieces of work manufactured in a factory.