Rube Goldberg 2k16
Zach, Sierra and I set out on a mission to build a contraption that flips a bottle. The contraption is called a Rube Goldberg. It had to include twelve different steps or energy transformations such as a lever, pulley or contact. During this project I learned all about potential energy (PE), kinetic energy (KE) and many more. I also learned about velocity and mechanical advantage. Our rube wasn't very sucessful at the exhibition because we had a lot of ballancing factors that fell over while the floor was shaking.
1. What hands on skills did you learn through working in your group? (construction, problem solving, collaboration, design, time management, etc...)
I learned how to use a chop saw, band saw, and a belt sander. I also learned how to improvise materials.
2. What steps were most challenging to make work? (How did you troubleshoot or redesign)
The pulley because our ramp that it was supposed to trigger was really hard to make work.
3. Explain the flow of energy throughout the whole rube from start to finish, (did it work all with just the input or did you add more along the way? In what ways is your rube efficient or NOT in transferring energy from one step to another)
Our rube loses a lot of energy through all of our levers but our ramps make a lot more energy.
Our Video:
Zach, Sierra and I set out on a mission to build a contraption that flips a bottle. The contraption is called a Rube Goldberg. It had to include twelve different steps or energy transformations such as a lever, pulley or contact. During this project I learned all about potential energy (PE), kinetic energy (KE) and many more. I also learned about velocity and mechanical advantage. Our rube wasn't very sucessful at the exhibition because we had a lot of ballancing factors that fell over while the floor was shaking.
1. What hands on skills did you learn through working in your group? (construction, problem solving, collaboration, design, time management, etc...)
I learned how to use a chop saw, band saw, and a belt sander. I also learned how to improvise materials.
2. What steps were most challenging to make work? (How did you troubleshoot or redesign)
The pulley because our ramp that it was supposed to trigger was really hard to make work.
3. Explain the flow of energy throughout the whole rube from start to finish, (did it work all with just the input or did you add more along the way? In what ways is your rube efficient or NOT in transferring energy from one step to another)
Our rube loses a lot of energy through all of our levers but our ramps make a lot more energy.
Our Video:
Life In The Cold
This is our lab report from our experiment. We did this experiment while we were studying heat loss in the cold.