Mousetrap Car Research Paper

The goal of this project was to build a mousetrap powered car that would be able to travel in a straight line for five meters. The team of partners could build a car designed to either travel a far distance or focus on speed and travel the five meters in the quickest amount of time. A mousetrap car works when one end of a string is tied to the arm of the mousetrap. The other end of the string would then be tied around the axle, this would stretch the mousetraps string which would provide stored energy. Once the mousetrap is released it will pull the string off the axle which will cause the wheels to turn and result in the car moving. There are many physics concepts that apply to the mousetrap car such as Newton’s laws. Newton’s first law known