Team Awesome  Stacy Whitaker  Kolby Hamilton  Tyler Card  Eugene Epler

Project Overview  Wood for solidity solidity  PVC for controlled ball controlled ball movement movement  Mousetrap to trigger shooter trigger shooter  Rubber bands for elasticity for elasticity  Magnets for added weight added weight  Pulleys to transfer weight transfer weight

A day of design  A marble drops down a zigzag track  The marble bites the trap’s cheese  The mouse trap triggers the shooter  The shooter knocks the golf ball into the funnel  The golf ball collides with weighted magnets  The magnets separate from the wooden board  The weights pull fishing line  The fishing line unravels the T banner

Physics!  Potential Gravitational Energy at the top at the top  Kinetic Energy at the bottom  Torque on peg from mousetrap  Elastic Potential into Kinetic  Conservation of Momentum

More Physics?  Potential Gravitational into Kinetic energy Kinetic energy  Momentum again!  Conservation of angular momentum momentum

Mishaps and Design Flaws  Originally built a device to launch ball with rubber bands, but was too inefficient even for Mr. Goldberg. Advice from a smart TA helped at this point.  Couldn’t turn lights on in Estabrook 13; walked around in the dark for half an hour until Dr. Bennet came to save the day.  Very difficult for golf ball to gain enough momentum to knock weight hard enough  Didn’t have any food whatsoever during the making of the project; major design flaw.

That’s a wrap  Turned out to be pretty fun  We didn’t buy anything  Real life applications to EF concepts  Kolby loves to build stuff  Engineering Fundamentals is awesome Things we learned: