Our recent physics project was our Rube Goldberg. A Rube Goldberg is when an action of an object makes another object move all on its own and then it continues. The requirements for this project was there had to be twelve steps in our Rube in order for us to explain kinetic and potential energy, also efficency and mechanical engineering. Other requirements for this project was it had dimensions of 2 ft x 2 ft x 3 ft. Also it had to work all on its own after our first step had started and the continue without assistance. Our rube was made to put syrup on waffles. Our first steps was we had a music box that when you turned would make the marble on top of it move and then roll into a set of dominos, this knocking down the dominos. The last domino at the end of the line had a needle attached to it, of which whe it was knocked down would pop a balloon. Attached to a balloon was a small car, of which was being held by a string as it was blown up. When popped the car would go down the ramp, seeing as it was no longer suspended by the blown up balloon. Having the weight of the ballon behind it, the car had needles attached to it. As it rolled down the ramp, there was a funnel of which lay a balloon filled with syrup. When the car fell into the object, the balloon filled with syrup popped and would go down the hole at the end of the object, then on to two PVC pipes then it goes down a hole drilled into the rube which then the syrup would fall onto a plate of waffles underneath our rube. What we learned in this project was how potential energy transferred to kinetic energy and how that was involved with our rube. We also learned about Power, Work, and Efficiency which we had to figure out how it affected our rube and how it was involved and figure out equations of these things and put them into our rube. We also learned how to constructt our rube and how to make certain objects apply to our rube.
One of the physics concept from our analysis that is most important is I think would be the potential and kinetic energy because transferring from potential to kinetic is mostly displayed in our rube. Also because I feel that it is one of the most important things that we learned due to equation wise and just from all the knowledge that we learned in this project. I also feel that it is important because it kinda goes hand in hand with the other equations and physics terms that we learned about in this project. I feel that the hardest part in this project was some of us were absent so it was hard trying to get the work done, I was gone for most of the time so it was hard for me to understand what was going on, but I soon caught on after a little bit. It was also hard because when I was gone we learned how to use a photogate and didn’t know how to do that so it was hard trying to learn something that I didn’t know how to do in the first place. Also what was hard was there would be two of us working and one wouldn’t be or one of us and the other people wouldn’t be working so it was kind of hard to get the work done. We perservered because we knew we had to get the work done and that we had to work hard in order to get a good grade and in order to be able to be successful in finishing our work.
What I feel my biggest contributions to the project was being able to do the analysis and getting that done all by myself and also being able to help evolve the idea even though I wasn’t there when my partners had the idea and started building the rube. I feel that I also contributed because I did the work on the worksheets about potential energy and kinetic and the elastic energy worksheets that we were given. I honestly feel that my biggest contribution was doing the analysis.
One of the physics concept from our analysis that is most important is I think would be the potential and kinetic energy because transferring from potential to kinetic is mostly displayed in our rube. Also because I feel that it is one of the most important things that we learned due to equation wise and just from all the knowledge that we learned in this project. I also feel that it is important because it kinda goes hand in hand with the other equations and physics terms that we learned about in this project. I feel that the hardest part in this project was some of us were absent so it was hard trying to get the work done, I was gone for most of the time so it was hard for me to understand what was going on, but I soon caught on after a little bit. It was also hard because when I was gone we learned how to use a photogate and didn’t know how to do that so it was hard trying to learn something that I didn’t know how to do in the first place. Also what was hard was there would be two of us working and one wouldn’t be or one of us and the other people wouldn’t be working so it was kind of hard to get the work done. We perservered because we knew we had to get the work done and that we had to work hard in order to get a good grade and in order to be able to be successful in finishing our work.
What I feel my biggest contributions to the project was being able to do the analysis and getting that done all by myself and also being able to help evolve the idea even though I wasn’t there when my partners had the idea and started building the rube. I feel that I also contributed because I did the work on the worksheets about potential energy and kinetic and the elastic energy worksheets that we were given. I honestly feel that my biggest contribution was doing the analysis.
Life in the Cold Project
Our project Life in the Cold addressed the topic of a certain question that would help someone survive in the Wilderness. Our question was between compacted and compacted snow with punctured holes in it which one would melt faster? This related to the topic because our survival question had to be related with snow and it was. We tested this process and wrote a lab report on the scientific experiment. This project not only focused on the survival in a snowy environment, but focused on us asking our own questions for future projects. This project helped us conduct experiments, as a skill we would need in the future.