Life in the Cold:
Testing insulation plays an important part in survival in the cold. The reason behind this experiment is to see which type of installation would be useful when surviving in the cold. The bottle representing body heat and the different types of thickness representing fabric useful when surviving in the cold.
Once we created our question we needed to create background knowledge and needed to find our materials for this experiment. After finding our materials and getting background knowledge we were able to start experimenting and getting observational data.
Group Roles:
Gabby:
-Data Manager
-Documenter
Rainy:
-Leader
-Refiner/Beautifier
Sara:
-Researcher
- Communication Director
Once we created our question we needed to create background knowledge and needed to find our materials for this experiment. After finding our materials and getting background knowledge we were able to start experimenting and getting observational data.
Group Roles:
Gabby:
-Data Manager
-Documenter
Rainy:
-Leader
-Refiner/Beautifier
Sara:
-Researcher
- Communication Director
Life in the cold- Lab report:
Rube Goldberg:
Over the course of two months the freshman class had constructed Rube Goldberg machines. Groups of three designed and constructed their own rubes. The goal of this project was to demonstrate the learning of physic concepts and to support the concept with an explanation of the transferring energy of each step.
My group built our Rube to splatter paint a canvas. The rube starts off with a car going down a ramp, the car hits a block that swings. The block that swings hits a domino. After this step there is a domino effect the last domino hits a ball bearing that begins rolling toward a ramp that knocks off a marble. The marble rolls down a ramp then continues onto a teeter totter to roll up then down onto a ramp underneath it. The marble then rolls down the ramp to come out through a whole. Another domino effect happens. A marble is then knocked by the very last domino, the marble releases down a tube. Once the marble comes out of the tube, it hits a heavier marble causing that to roll onto a track that leads right to a mouse trap. When the mouse trap springs from the weight of the marble the string that is caught in the mouse trap with a bolt releases. This string is connected to a pulley holding weights that fall onto the tubes of paint exploding onto the canvas.
My group built our Rube to splatter paint a canvas. The rube starts off with a car going down a ramp, the car hits a block that swings. The block that swings hits a domino. After this step there is a domino effect the last domino hits a ball bearing that begins rolling toward a ramp that knocks off a marble. The marble rolls down a ramp then continues onto a teeter totter to roll up then down onto a ramp underneath it. The marble then rolls down the ramp to come out through a whole. Another domino effect happens. A marble is then knocked by the very last domino, the marble releases down a tube. Once the marble comes out of the tube, it hits a heavier marble causing that to roll onto a track that leads right to a mouse trap. When the mouse trap springs from the weight of the marble the string that is caught in the mouse trap with a bolt releases. This string is connected to a pulley holding weights that fall onto the tubes of paint exploding onto the canvas.