Life in the Cold: Testing the different burn temperatures of wood
The purpose of this experiment was to test what wood type would let off the most heat. We wanted to figure this out because if you end up creating a fire in the winter you will want to your fire to burn at the hottest temperature possible and choosing the right wood would allow you to do that.
Rube Goldberg Project:
A rube goldberg is an extremely complicated machine that is developed to do a simple task. We did this project to understand the concept of physics like mechanical advantage. The project required our rube to have 12 steps last 20 seconds and incorporate and analize certain physics concepts. My rubes final step was to launch a rocket. We tried to stay away from using simple materials like dominos for our entire rube and substituted them for electronics. We had 14 steps at the end and the rocket landed at 21 seconds.
Rube reflection:
Personally what was your biggest contribution to the project?
My biggest contributions to the rube were creating all the electrical steps and finding the calculations for the analysis.
What steps were most challenging to make work? (How did you troubleshoot or redesign)
The most challenging step of ours was the second step where the teeter totter hit the button for the winch. It worked just not 100% of the time so I fixed this by angling the button that is hit to increase the chance of it working.
What hands on skills did you learn through working in your group? (construction, problem solving, collaboration, design, time management, etc...)
I have learned how to collaborate better with groups. We have become more successful at evening out the tasks.
A rube goldberg is an extremely complicated machine that is developed to do a simple task. We did this project to understand the concept of physics like mechanical advantage. The project required our rube to have 12 steps last 20 seconds and incorporate and analize certain physics concepts. My rubes final step was to launch a rocket. We tried to stay away from using simple materials like dominos for our entire rube and substituted them for electronics. We had 14 steps at the end and the rocket landed at 21 seconds.
Rube reflection:
Personally what was your biggest contribution to the project?
My biggest contributions to the rube were creating all the electrical steps and finding the calculations for the analysis.
What steps were most challenging to make work? (How did you troubleshoot or redesign)
The most challenging step of ours was the second step where the teeter totter hit the button for the winch. It worked just not 100% of the time so I fixed this by angling the button that is hit to increase the chance of it working.
What hands on skills did you learn through working in your group? (construction, problem solving, collaboration, design, time management, etc...)
I have learned how to collaborate better with groups. We have become more successful at evening out the tasks.