Term Papers on Mousetrap Car Paper

Term Paper Title	Mousetrap Car Paper
# of Words	562
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.25

Mousetrap Car Paper

Physics 2

5/26/04

Mousetrap Car Paper

Intro

            First off, all calculations are shown on the attached page.  Please don’t judge how I did the distance calculations and some leading up to them, I used those solely for my own purpose and understanding in hopes that I could make a spreadsheet to find the best distance to speed ratio for total distance.

A Few Things Found Along the Way

            I started off with a car that was about 1.3 meters in length.  I put the mousetrap fairly close to the rear axel and made about a half meter lever arm that stuck out the back further than the rear axel.  I used the bottoms of buckets for my rear wheels and some small ones in front.  It hit an 8-9 m mark right off the bat.  It went pretty fast so I extended the lever arm.  I kept getting the same results over and over even after extending the arm to 3 m or so.  I changed the rear wheels to 12” records and they dramatically improved my results.  I found out later, though, why increasing the lever arm did nothing to change my results (this was just Tuesday, the night before this paper was due).  I found that after the lever arm is past the rear axel, the amount of string wound up is only about twice the distance between the axel and the spring.  So I figured I had a lot of extra weight and pretty much started all over.

Now

            Now I have a much better and shorter car with the same rear wheels and a much shorte...

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