Hybrid Car Battery
In this project, we were assigned to create a driver-less car. A driver-less car is a car that does does have a human being in the vehicle to control or start the car. Without having a human start the car with gasoline and an engine to start the car, we had to come up with other ways to get the car started. Some groups had string, springs and even batteries. Our group finally chose to start the car with a spring. We had two and a half weeks of building time to complete the car. We had some major difficulty trying to make a car that actually went the 5m distance that it needed to go. Oh yeah I forgot to mention, the car had to meet a distance of five meters. We were not given a lot of instructions by Mr. Williams because he wanted to see what kind of inventions and creative ideas that we could think of. It was definitely a fun and challenging project for our group. Here now are some key concepts and peaks/pits of our project.
KEY PHYSICS CONCEPTS:
-POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SPRING: the spring resists compression
-VELOCITY: speed of something in a given direction
-MOMENTUM:the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity
-SPEED: the rate in which something or someone is able to move or operate
PEAKS/PITS
Two peaks we had in our project were: teamwork and fast working. Teamwork was a big peak because even when we were down to the wire with work that had to be done, we did it. WE certainly did a great job of communicating to each other when the work had to be finished. That leads me into my next peak, fast working. We were down to the wire with work because we had some previous troubles with the car being made. The fast working isn't always a good trait, but it made our group be better about fixing the problem when it needs to be fixed.
Two pits we had were: making changes and getting frustrated with the car after one try at it. Making changes was a problem because we had to make multiple changes to our cars. We had five different cars we tried until one finally worked. I honestly think that if we had stayed with our first or second car, it would've worked with some fixes that need to be made. we all would get frustrated with our car after one try. Then Mr. Williams reminded us that, in science, it rarely ever works the first time. A quote by Thomas Edison," I haven't failed, I just found ten-thousand ways that don't make a light bulb shine."
KEY PHYSICS CONCEPTS:
-POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SPRING: the spring resists compression
-VELOCITY: speed of something in a given direction
-MOMENTUM:the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity
-SPEED: the rate in which something or someone is able to move or operate
PEAKS/PITS
Two peaks we had in our project were: teamwork and fast working. Teamwork was a big peak because even when we were down to the wire with work that had to be done, we did it. WE certainly did a great job of communicating to each other when the work had to be finished. That leads me into my next peak, fast working. We were down to the wire with work because we had some previous troubles with the car being made. The fast working isn't always a good trait, but it made our group be better about fixing the problem when it needs to be fixed.
Two pits we had were: making changes and getting frustrated with the car after one try at it. Making changes was a problem because we had to make multiple changes to our cars. We had five different cars we tried until one finally worked. I honestly think that if we had stayed with our first or second car, it would've worked with some fixes that need to be made. we all would get frustrated with our car after one try. Then Mr. Williams reminded us that, in science, it rarely ever works the first time. A quote by Thomas Edison," I haven't failed, I just found ten-thousand ways that don't make a light bulb shine."