Mouse Trap Car
Ryan Grizzle
Period 7
Mouse Trap Car Essay
This purpose of this essay is to relate what I learned in first semester to my mouse trap car and its motion. My mouse trap car is made with paint stirring sticks as the body, and CD’s serve as the wheels. The back wheels, or CD’s, have a rubber balloon around them, and there is a string wrapped around them attached to the mouse trap in order to make it move. My mouse trap car is decorated very festive, in order for Christmas. I predict my car will go farther than what is expected.
My car is going to go farther than the 40 meters that is expected. I think that it will go far because of how hard I worked on it, and how far it went when I practiced with it at my house. Also, the different elements I put in it to help it go will affect its distance. The next few paragraphs will explain the different physics topics that I learned about that I incorporated into my mouse trap car.
Scalars and vectors have a lot to do with different components of my mouse trap car. Scalars are quantities that are fully described by a magnitude, and a vector is quantity that is fully described by both a magnitude and a direction. My car gets measured for how far it goes, which is distance. Distance it’s self is a scalar. Another scalar that is involved with my car is the speed of my car. A vector that had to do with my mouse trap car is displacement which is a change in position of an object, which goes with my car sense it moves from one spot to another. More vectors that are incorporated into my car are velocity and acceleration. Distance is how far the car would go and displacement is the final point an object is at minus the initial point. If my car traveled 5.5 meters, but then rolled back 2.3 meters it would affect how far it went for the distance, and displacement. For displacement you would subtract the two, and for distance you would add them. If you were required to travel 3m forward down the hall, and then
Period 7
Mouse Trap Car Essay
This purpose of this essay is to relate what I learned in first semester to my mouse trap car and its motion. My mouse trap car is made with paint stirring sticks as the body, and CD’s serve as the wheels. The back wheels, or CD’s, have a rubber balloon around them, and there is a string wrapped around them attached to the mouse trap in order to make it move. My mouse trap car is decorated very festive, in order for Christmas. I predict my car will go farther than what is expected.
My car is going to go farther than the 40 meters that is expected. I think that it will go far because of how hard I worked on it, and how far it went when I practiced with it at my house. Also, the different elements I put in it to help it go will affect its distance. The next few paragraphs will explain the different physics topics that I learned about that I incorporated into my mouse trap car.
Scalars and vectors have a lot to do with different components of my mouse trap car. Scalars are quantities that are fully described by a magnitude, and a vector is quantity that is fully described by both a magnitude and a direction. My car gets measured for how far it goes, which is distance. Distance it’s self is a scalar. Another scalar that is involved with my car is the speed of my car. A vector that had to do with my mouse trap car is displacement which is a change in position of an object, which goes with my car sense it moves from one spot to another. More vectors that are incorporated into my car are velocity and acceleration. Distance is how far the car would go and displacement is the final point an object is at minus the initial point. If my car traveled 5.5 meters, but then rolled back 2.3 meters it would affect how far it went for the distance, and displacement. For displacement you would subtract the two, and for distance you would add them. If you were required to travel 3m forward down the hall, and then