Title of your Car
Picture of Car Here
Partner’s 1 Name
Partner’s 2 Name
Partner’s 3 Name
Purpose
What is your goal for this project and what was your original design plan for your vehicle to achieve this?
3 sentence minimum
Materials
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List anything that would be needed for this experiment.
Use Bullets
Do not need complete sentences
Procedures
Paragraph One (Do write Paragraph 1)
Explain how you built the mousetrap car the first time.
4 Sentence minimum.
Tell exactly step by step how you built your vehicle
Paragraph Two (Do write Paragraph 2)
Explain any final modifications you made to your mousetrap car for the Competition Day.
2 sentence minimum
Data (2 Points)
a.
Include the distances your car traveled on Day One and Day 2 (after you made modifications).
Force Diagram
b. Force diagram-1 of your vehicle showing all forces acting on it while it is motionless
c. Force diagram-2 of your vehicle showing all forces acting on it while it is moving
d. Use Google drawings to create the Force Diagrams
Below shows how to access Google Drawings
Conclusion
Paragraph 1 (Do write Paragraph 1)
Describe in your own words in terms of energy how did your car move?
You should use the terms: Kinetic Energy, Elastic Energy, Dissipated Energy
How energy was transferred in this process?
3 sentence minimum
Paragraph 2 (Do write Paragraph 2)
Describe in your own words how did your car move in terms of forces, what made it start and stop?
You should use terms: Balanced Forces, Unbalanced Forces, types of forces acting on the car
3 sentence minimum
Paragraph 3 (Do write Paragraph 3)
Discuss major problems that happened when constructing and testing your car. What did you do to solve these
problems?
Did your car travel farther during the Attempt First Day or Second Test Day? Why did it or did not travel as far?
If you had to do anything different in this project to make your car go further what would you do differently? If you
would not change anything, what did you do well?
5 sentence minimum