Mousetrap Car Final Paper Design Description Our car had four CD wheels that were attached to the axle of the car with CD spacers. We put balloons over the wheels for traction. The body of the car was two pieces of wood that was attached by the mousetrap car sitting on top of both of the pieces of wood. The lever arm is attached to the mousetrap with a piece of string to turn the axle; therefore‚ turning the wheels. Then the body of the car is held in place by four CD spacers on the outside of
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more than forty-four hundred mousetraps patented‚ fewer than two dozen have earned their creators a cent. http://www.americanheritage.com/content/better-mousetrap The snap trap’s annual sales are a company secret (whispers put them in the vicinity of thirty million). But the Woodstream Corporation is willing to acknowledge that the Victor snap trap outsells all other American mousetraps combined —including its own less popular models and those of sixty other U.S. mousetrap manufacturers—by a ratio of
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company. Currently‚ Trap-Ease has only manufactured one product that is the mousetrap‚ which is also known as the Trap-Ease mousetrap. This mousetrap is designed to allow customers to enjoy the means of dealing with mouse problem efficiently. Customers can be at ease by avoiding the safety and cleanliness problems created by the traditional spring-loaded traps or poison. One of the main materials for Trap-Ease mousetrap is plastic. The trap is a square‚ plastic tube measuring about 6 inches long
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The Big Cheese of Mousetraps If a man [can] ... make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ... the world will make a beaten path to his door. As Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease America‚ contemplated the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson framed on the wall of her Costa Mesa‚ California office‚ she wondered whether Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap - Trap-Ease - but the world didn’t seem all that excited. IF YOU BUILD A BETTER MOUSETRAP‚ WILL IT SELL?
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By winding the spring on your mousetrap car‚ you store energy in the spring as potential energy. This stored potential energy will convert energy into kinetic energy as the mouse-trap car begins to move. But there is friction and in order to overcome friction you have to do more work. Friction converts energy into heat and sound which takes away energy from your motion‚ causing the car to stop as its energy is turned into other forms. When designing a mousetrap car‚ there are two variables that
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How did your car perform? Explain the aspects of your car that made it function well. What are some areas of improvement for your car? Explain how it could have been made better so that the car could have performed better. During its test‚ my mousetrap car curved to the right causing it to crash into a wall and stop short of its full potential. However‚ the car still traveled the the entirety of the 11 meters required for the maximum number of points. The reasons that my mousetrap car functioned as
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Shyanne Vaden Mousetrap Questions What are the two ways that friction affected the performance of your vehicle? Friction affected my vehicle by either not pushing it far enough‚ or pushing it very far. The friction of the ground would also stop my vehicle from going farther then it could’ve. My car also needed a bit of momentum to start so the friction did not help my care move at all. What problems related to friction did you encounter and how did you solve them? The friction did not
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vehicle’s performance. To determine this‚ the distance a car travels when tested with the same propulsion force but different wheel diameter is measured. We expect that there will be an optimum size that should be utilized in order to achieve maximum efficiency. A larger or smaller wheel size should change the distance that the car will travel. The cars we will test will be made of common and inexpensive materials. The design of the cars will consist of simple wheel and axel setups and a lever;
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The Mousetrap Race Car Project demonstrated an individual(s) potential of a skill to manufacture the most capable mousetrap car with the use of levers and pulleys; so that they willingly categorize their car for the primary usage for SPEED‚ DISTANCE‚ and STRENGTH. Some may try to make all the aspects into one design. The problem that I identified was using the least materials‚ most materials for success‚ and parts for wheels and axles. This stresses the success that the manufactured car will have
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Trap Car Project GENERAL OBJECTIVE To construct a car powered by a mousetrap. This car works when one end of a string is tied to the arm on the mousetrap and the other end is wound around an axis. By winding the string around the axle the mousetrap’s spring is stretched providing stored energy. As the mousetrap is released it pulls the string off of the axle causing the wheels to turn and making the car move. PROJECT The objective of this project is to design a MOUSETRAP CAR for
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