Mini Trebuchet
Rube Reflection
During my rube goldberg project in physics I believe that it went very well. Although there was a couple bumps in the road over all we stuck together.Although all our steps were not on we still managed to figure out a way to keep on with our project. Once exhibition came around the rube actually worked, we were all very happy even though we went through some struggles. It took our group almost a week to just agree on planning the rube. I had a very hard time collaborating with them because we were all so different on the way we view thing. Almost more than half of out group ended up not getting their steps on so we had to figure out how to still make it work without the other 4 steps thankfully we still managed to get an okay final product to exhibition.
If you dropped a 7 gram steel ball into a bucket 50 centimeters away with a pulley attached, how would you calculate the potential energy? To calculate the potential energy you multiply the mass (.007) times the gravity (9.81 m/s2 ) times the height (.5 mt). The potential energy is .034334 Joules. When the ball lands the velocity is .45 m/ps2 multiplied by the mass (.007) times .5. The ending kinetic energy then is .00070875 Joules.
We started designing our rube by all getting together and discussing what we all can contribute to the project. People would decide on steps they wanted to do and we would draw them. We then looked at steps that wouldn't work. I think my main strength during this project was creativity because I thought I had pretty creative ideas during the process and especially in a project with building you have to be creative at all times. The main skill that I need to work on is collaboration. I really struggled with that because our group didn't get along, we argued over things that didn't matter instead of getting to work. There was kids that seemed to just not care at all about it and that was very hard for me and others in the group because we still had to keep him occupied.
If you dropped a 7 gram steel ball into a bucket 50 centimeters away with a pulley attached, how would you calculate the potential energy? To calculate the potential energy you multiply the mass (.007) times the gravity (9.81 m/s2 ) times the height (.5 mt). The potential energy is .034334 Joules. When the ball lands the velocity is .45 m/ps2 multiplied by the mass (.007) times .5. The ending kinetic energy then is .00070875 Joules.
We started designing our rube by all getting together and discussing what we all can contribute to the project. People would decide on steps they wanted to do and we would draw them. We then looked at steps that wouldn't work. I think my main strength during this project was creativity because I thought I had pretty creative ideas during the process and especially in a project with building you have to be creative at all times. The main skill that I need to work on is collaboration. I really struggled with that because our group didn't get along, we argued over things that didn't matter instead of getting to work. There was kids that seemed to just not care at all about it and that was very hard for me and others in the group because we still had to keep him occupied.