Tuesday, February 14, 2012

2/14/12 - Building K'NEX cars

Today in class we worked through building our K'NEX cars.  We worked in teams of two and three people to construct a car out of plastic pieces that we will test for the next day or two.  All of you did a fine job constructing the cars and looking forward to testing them tomorrow.  Here are the two views of the car that you should have written on your paper, so if you do not have this drawn, please do so tonight.

K'NEX side view

K'NEX top view
Tomorrow we are going to test our cars using the force of gravity to power them down a ramp.  We take three trials and measure the distance over the amount of time the car took to reach that distance.  Once every group has had a chance to test the cars, we will come together as a class and graph the results.

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