Team Awesome

Stacy WhitakerKolby HamiltonTyler CardEugene Epler

Project OverviewWood for solidityPVC for controlled ball movementMousetrap to trigger shooterRubber bands for elasticityMagnets for added weightPulleys to 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 topKinetic Energy at the bottom

Torque on peg from mousetrap

Elastic Potential into Kinetic

Conservation of Momentum

More Physics?Potential Gravitational into Kinetic energy

Momentum again!

Conservation of angular 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: