Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Balloon Racer

We finally got our balloon racer to work!!!  Here are the calculations...

Mass: 100 grams
Acceleration: 0.24 m/s *squared*
Total net force: 24 N


Pictures:
I was not too happy with Gabby at the moment...


I think that we built like three different cars...and Gabby broke one!!!


















Description: Our balloon racer's body was made out of styrofoam and the wheels were CD's.  To secure the wheels, there were Gatorade tops that kept them in lign.  There were wooden dowels that were the axels for the wheels.  At first, the body was made of cardboard, but it wasn't sturdy enough.  It was also too heavy.  The last thing that we did was put weights (20 grams) on the front to make sure that it went straight.  

No comments:

Post a Comment