Energy In motion
The energy in motion project allowed us to learn about the different forces that act upon our everyday lives and what they really do. Along with this we refreshed our minds on the basic principles of forces and we began our project of creating a mousetrap powered car that would race at least 5 meters. This seemed like a simple task, but to get that much power out of a small mousetrap we had to get as much juice as possible to get it to go far. This was where all of our learnings came into play and we had create a car that would create very little negative forces, and occupy more positive forces. In the end we decided to go with a classic popsicle stick car and my partner and I managed to get our car to run down the strip a solid 5 meters.
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