The Rube Goldberg Project
OK, if you don't know what a Rube Goldberg is, you should really look it up, but basically, it's a really complex machine that is built to do a simple task, people can take months to years building them and making sure that the 10-100 chain reactions don't screw up to epic proportions.
Now, what we have to do is build a Rube Goldberg in our separate groups that falls within these requirements: It must fit within a 3x3 ft piece of plywood, it must fit under a three foot height limit, keep it going for about 15 seconds, our groups can't do anything to it while it's running, it has to run 2 out of 3 test runs successfully, it has to have (I think) 3 different transitions, and it has to have 10-15 steps in the process.
Now, what we have to do is build a Rube Goldberg in our separate groups that falls within these requirements: It must fit within a 3x3 ft piece of plywood, it must fit under a three foot height limit, keep it going for about 15 seconds, our groups can't do anything to it while it's running, it has to run 2 out of 3 test runs successfully, it has to have (I think) 3 different transitions, and it has to have 10-15 steps in the process.
Over there is a picture of the rube that my group built, and it was hard to get it to look like this AND to function 100% on every run!
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Rocket Project
Log:
Day One: Me and my partner are attempting to find a good design for our rocket. That's pretty much it.
Day Two: Trying to get our hands on some Smart Water Bottles.
Day Three: This is getting boring.
Reflection:
So, the first project that we did in Physics was to build and effectively launch Bottle Rockets, and yes, I said "BUILD". Me and my partner had a lot of fun putting together the rocket, and it was even better when we first launched it at one of the test launches, but then it was completely destroyed, because we wanted to, deal with it, and then we rebuilt the whole thing from scratch. And to the right is a shot of our 2nd rocket before we did the final launch, and I think it did better than the first rocket did. I really loved our first physics project, it was very enjoyable to watch some of the rockets fly of the charts, and even more entertaining to watch some of them explode.
Day One: Me and my partner are attempting to find a good design for our rocket. That's pretty much it.
Day Two: Trying to get our hands on some Smart Water Bottles.
Day Three: This is getting boring.
Reflection:
So, the first project that we did in Physics was to build and effectively launch Bottle Rockets, and yes, I said "BUILD". Me and my partner had a lot of fun putting together the rocket, and it was even better when we first launched it at one of the test launches, but then it was completely destroyed, because we wanted to, deal with it, and then we rebuilt the whole thing from scratch. And to the right is a shot of our 2nd rocket before we did the final launch, and I think it did better than the first rocket did. I really loved our first physics project, it was very enjoyable to watch some of the rockets fly of the charts, and even more entertaining to watch some of them explode.