The Team Chris Brown, Jonathan Crow Chad Daugherty, Colby Summers

The Project 1 – Ball rolls down a ramp whacks a lever 2 – Ball hits a spring and rebounds down a ramp 3 – Ball 1 falls in a basket to raise a banner 4 – Lever whacks ball 2 5 – Ball 2 rolls through step downs and presses plunger. 6 – The Amazing conclusion

The Problems Actually find something to build Find a way to contain the balls so they go where we want them 2nd biggest problem – put the contraption together Biggest problem – Actually get the thing to work

The Energy Start with a lot of potential The ball gets to rolling transferring potential into kinetic energy The kinetic energy hits a spring and converts into elastic potential (if only for a very short time) Ball 1 uses all that energy (K and P) to lift up the banner Ball 2 uses its potential to move down a series of ramps then whack a plunger

Conclusions People will do a lot of work and not really accomplish anything It takes just as much energy to start the ball as it does to just push the button Energy conversions are most definitely not fun to calculate Finally – An 8 ft. chunk of wood will NOT fit into a Tercel