Car Crash
Hypothesis:
If a car is involved in a crash, a domino effect of reactions will occur.
Background:
The modern day automobile is a very complex piece of machinery that has a lot to do with the world of physics. Like every great invention, there was a beginning. For the automobile this beginning was in 1769. Nicolas Cugnot, a Frenchmen inventing for the French Army, came up with was first self-propelled, steam engined, three wheeled cart that was said to go as fast as walking speed. The next milestone in the car timeline was in 1801 when the first horseless carriage was born. Richard Trevithick from Britain, refined the engine making it smaller and more powerful. In 1824 Samuel Brown made steam a powered engine that burned a mixture of oxygen hydrogen gas enabling these evolutionary cars to travel up hills on their own. One of the greatest inventions came in 1858 when Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, a Belgian-born engineer, came up with the first internal combustion engine that was fueled by coal. In 1876 Nikolaus August Otto invented the “Otto cycle” or the four-stroke engine. That same year, Sir Dugald Clerk invented the first two-stroke engine (http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/cars/timeline/).
The difference between the four stroke and the two stoke engine is simple. The two stoke engine doesn’t have any valves; the pistons are the valve and in every revolution there is compression. In a four stoke engine every other revolution is compression, and has intake and exhausted valves (Ham). In 1903 the Ford Motor Company formed. The Ford Motor Company was founded by the Malcomson group with Henry Ford in the lead. Henry Ford was the face of the ford motor and the mind behind the mechanics. Henry Ford was passionate about how cars ran and every year their performance improved. In 1908 they started making the Model T on the assembly line, making cars affordable and efficient. The rest, as they say, is history (Davis). At least that’s what everyone thought.
If a car is involved in a crash, a domino effect of reactions will occur.
Background:
The modern day automobile is a very complex piece of machinery that has a lot to do with the world of physics. Like every great invention, there was a beginning. For the automobile this beginning was in 1769. Nicolas Cugnot, a Frenchmen inventing for the French Army, came up with was first self-propelled, steam engined, three wheeled cart that was said to go as fast as walking speed. The next milestone in the car timeline was in 1801 when the first horseless carriage was born. Richard Trevithick from Britain, refined the engine making it smaller and more powerful. In 1824 Samuel Brown made steam a powered engine that burned a mixture of oxygen hydrogen gas enabling these evolutionary cars to travel up hills on their own. One of the greatest inventions came in 1858 when Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, a Belgian-born engineer, came up with the first internal combustion engine that was fueled by coal. In 1876 Nikolaus August Otto invented the “Otto cycle” or the four-stroke engine. That same year, Sir Dugald Clerk invented the first two-stroke engine (http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/cars/timeline/).
The difference between the four stroke and the two stoke engine is simple. The two stoke engine doesn’t have any valves; the pistons are the valve and in every revolution there is compression. In a four stoke engine every other revolution is compression, and has intake and exhausted valves (Ham). In 1903 the Ford Motor Company formed. The Ford Motor Company was founded by the Malcomson group with Henry Ford in the lead. Henry Ford was the face of the ford motor and the mind behind the mechanics. Henry Ford was passionate about how cars ran and every year their performance improved. In 1908 they started making the Model T on the assembly line, making cars affordable and efficient. The rest, as they say, is history (Davis). At least that’s what everyone thought.