CHALLENGE:
The Hyundai car company is looking for forms of alternative energy. Their challenge is to build a prototype car that can carry 250g exactly five meters. They allow any type of energy besides chemical and nuclear. This is a slideshow about our car:
CALCULATIONS:
After making this car we found the distance traveled, weight of the vehicle, and time it took to get to the end and to each meter.
Using this we found velocity by using v=d/t, the gravitational potential energy by using PEgrav=mgh, and the kinetic energy using KE=½mv², we then divided the kinetic energy by the potential energy to get the effeciency of our car. You can see all the numbers we got including the price of the materials for the small scale prototype.
CONSTRUCTION:
We started with blueprint drawings of the side, top, and front angles of the car, we then scaled the car and started building. Building took a while and we had to overcome quite a few problems, such as getting round wheels that were strong enough to support our car, also our car started of originally without moving at all, but with a couple changes we figured it all out. The car is mostly wooden with a pulley, some masses, screws, and cd's for wheels
CONCLUSION:
I am very proud of the car that Jackson Hilton, Nihal Nazeem, and I built together in a relativley short amount of time. It is very good at going exact distances and goes at a moderate speed, slighly gaining momentum as it goes. I feel like I greatly improved in leadership, our whole group shared an equal quantity of leadership and it felt nice to not just be a follower. I still have a lot more room to improve on taking leadership
CAR:
The Hyundai car company is looking for forms of alternative energy. Their challenge is to build a prototype car that can carry 250g exactly five meters. They allow any type of energy besides chemical and nuclear. This is a slideshow about our car:
CALCULATIONS:
After making this car we found the distance traveled, weight of the vehicle, and time it took to get to the end and to each meter.
Using this we found velocity by using v=d/t, the gravitational potential energy by using PEgrav=mgh, and the kinetic energy using KE=½mv², we then divided the kinetic energy by the potential energy to get the effeciency of our car. You can see all the numbers we got including the price of the materials for the small scale prototype.
CONSTRUCTION:
We started with blueprint drawings of the side, top, and front angles of the car, we then scaled the car and started building. Building took a while and we had to overcome quite a few problems, such as getting round wheels that were strong enough to support our car, also our car started of originally without moving at all, but with a couple changes we figured it all out. The car is mostly wooden with a pulley, some masses, screws, and cd's for wheels
CONCLUSION:
I am very proud of the car that Jackson Hilton, Nihal Nazeem, and I built together in a relativley short amount of time. It is very good at going exact distances and goes at a moderate speed, slighly gaining momentum as it goes. I feel like I greatly improved in leadership, our whole group shared an equal quantity of leadership and it felt nice to not just be a follower. I still have a lot more room to improve on taking leadership
CAR: