mouse trap car and racer plans

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The Mouse Trap Car Activity Guide is designed to teach students the secrets of building a winning mousetrap powered racer. Through each activity, students will learn all about the many variables that affect one and another and how they relate to the performance of a mousetrap vehicle. Over 69 pages of high-level activities and handouts that can be printed and passed out to students for an advance study of the science behind building a record setting mouse trap powered car. The Activities are the same as those found in The Secrets to Success but they come ready to print and pass out to your students. The activities are written for high school level students and beyond. download a sample now




Tons of Experiments, Formulas, Activities
Experiments include: Graphing velocity vs. time, acceleration vs. time, finding potential energy, finding spring constant, predicting maximum travel distance, power output, the mechanical advantage, rolling friction, coefficient of friction, rotational inertia, efficiency, and MORE MORE MORE!

Other topics included:
Motion: acceleration, velocity, displacement
Friction: surface friction, fluid friction, reducing friction.
Wheels: tire traction
Newtons Laws: inertia, F.=MA, action reaction
Momentum:
Center of mass: weight distribution.
Rotational inertia:
Hooks Law: starting torque, spring constant.
Energy: potential and kinetic energy, power output
Mechanical advantage: transmission, wheel-to-axle ratio,
Torque:
More, more, and MORE!