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Team Awesome

Team Awesome. Stacy Whitaker Kolby Hamilton Tyler Card Eugene Epler. Project Overview. Wood for solidity PVC for controlled ball movement Mousetrap to trigger shooter Rubber bands for elasticity Magnets for added weight Pulleys to transfer weight.

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Team Awesome

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  1. Team Awesome • Stacy Whitaker • Kolby Hamilton • Tyler Card • Eugene Epler

  2. Project Overview • Wood for • solidity • PVC for • controlled ball • movement • Mousetrap to • trigger shooter • Rubber bands • for elasticity • Magnets for • added weight • Pulleys to • transfer weight

  3. A day of design • A marble drops down a zigzag track • The marble bites the trap’s cheese • The mouse trap triggers the shooter • The shooter knocks the golf ball into the funnel • The golf ball collides with weighted magnets • The magnets separate from the wooden board • The weights pull fishing line • The fishing line unravels the T banner

  4. Physics! • Potential Gravitational Energy • at the top • Kinetic Energy at the bottom • Torque on peg from mousetrap • Elastic Potential into Kinetic • Conservation of Momentum

  5. More Physics? • Potential Gravitational into • Kinetic energy • Momentum again! • Conservation of angular • momentum

  6. Mishaps and Design Flaws • Originally built a device to launch ball with rubber bands, but was too inefficient even for Mr. Goldberg. Advice from a smart TA helped at this point. • Couldn’t turn lights on in Estabrook 13; walked around in the dark for half an hour until Dr. Bennet came to save the day. • Very difficult for golf ball to gain enough momentum to knock weight hard enough • Didn’t have any food whatsoever during the making of the project; major design flaw.

  7. That’s a wrap • Turned out to be pretty fun • We didn’t buy anything • Real life applications to EF concepts • Kolby loves to build stuff • Engineering Fundamentals is awesome Things we learned:

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