mousetrap cars and vehicles

Software designed for mousetrap racers
The Mousetrap Vehicle Analyzer is a complete software program that produces a variety of graphs and performs a ton of calculations based on simple measurements taken from a students mousetrap vehicle project. For example, based on measurements of mass, wheel diameter, lever arm length, spring constant, and several other measurements, the Analyzer can produce graphs of distance vs. Time, speed vs. time, acceleration vs. time and many other such graphs. This powerful program will also calculate the vehicle's total starting energy, the coefficient of friction, the starting torque, the power output, and the total number of wheel rotations. Don't start your mousetrap vehicle activity without it! PC and Mac versions on one disk .




Tons of Experiments, Graphs, and Calculations
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!