1. Turbo mousetrap cart: Need for cheese!
How to build the Mouse Trap Car

2. Goals & Objectives
To demonstrate how there are alternative ways besides fuel and power sources to make vehicles move
To leave with a functional moving car
To be able to explain how the car works

3. Energy, Motion and Friction
What is energy?
From where we have energy
Is our cart in need of a source of energy to work?
Motion
What is motion?
Transforming energy to move the cart

4. Energy, Motion and Friction
What is friction
Transforming energy into heat
Not all the friction is negative
How does friction affect the motion of a vehicle?
Without friction our cart can not move
The friction convert energy that can be use to move the cart into heat that we do not need!!!

6. What is a turbo mousetrap cart and how does it work?
A turbo mousetrap cart is a vehicle that is powered by the energy of a wound-up mousetrap spring.
The string is wound around the axle by the turning of the wheels, the snappper’s lever arm is pulled close to the drive axle causing the mouse trap's “wind-up” and store energy. When the string is released the drive axle by the mousetrap will cause the wheels to rotate.

7. About the mousetrap- Materials
String
Connector Strips
Perpendicular Blocks
5mm Dowels
Pulleys
Galvanized Colored Wire
Mousetrap
Slide Stop Material
#12-½” Screws
#10 Washers
Gears
Wheels
Rubber bands

8. Steps

13. Get
Ready to
Race !!!!!!