A hybrid car is a car that replaces fuel with energy. In this project we made a car that was energy effiecent and to have it travel 5m and stop. Our car is called the mouse car trap, and is powered by a mouse trap which is on top of the car. The way our car works is by setting up the mouse trap and having a piece of string tied at the back of the car, and the string is attatched in the middle of both wheels. And as we let go of the mouse trap, the string would start slowly start unwinding and the car would start moving. It didn't take us very long to come up with the idea, but it took us many tries to fix and edit the car to improve it. And even then, our car didn't turn out the greatest, but it did work in a decent kind of way.
Velocity:The rate of distance covered in a certian direction. Spring Constant: A measurement of how easy a spring is compressed and expanded
Reflection: With our project, we had trouble with splitting up the work. My teammate felt like she had to do most of the work, which caused our project to fall behind on others, and having to rush on more things to get other things done. And in order to do that, we had to put trust in each other in order to complete the job. The biggest issue that we had was the string. We didn't have a correct measurement of the string, because it was either too long so the car wouldn't stop at exactly 5m, and if it's too short, then it would stop before the 5m mark. What I learned from this group though, was to speak up and tell my teammate on what I should do, instead of just sitting there and waiting for my teammate to say/yell at me to do something.
I worked on this project with Vivian Leida, Thomas Towey, and Adam Rosenbaum