Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Machine
PRESENTED BY: DEAN KIDDER-BUELL, LIZ KING, BENJAMIN
KLINGE, AND MARILYNN HUNT
Simple Machines
For our Rube Goldberg Machine, we used five different simple machines: a
screw, a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever, and a wheel and axle.
Screw- an inclined plane that wraps around in circles
Pulley- makes lifting loads easier by using rope and a wheel
Inclined Plane- a sloped surface that connects a high and a low point
Lever- a bar that rests on a fulcrum to make lifting loads easier
Wheel and Axle- a wheel that spins on an axle to move objects
Wedge- an object with one slanted side, used either to cut things
apart or hold something in place
The simple machine we did not use was a wedge.
Original
Final
Force = mass
(acceleration)
=7.7N
The downward
force of our string
of weights is 7.7N.
Construction Record
We started our project with PVC pipe supporting the two
levels. We attached the screw and drilled the holes for the pulley
s strings. We then decided the PVC pipe wasnt sturdy enough to
hold the boards, so we switched them out for pieces of wood.
This made it much sturdier and slowly, we added each step.
We had a lot of trouble making the inclined plane work, but
eventually we got it. We also had trouble making the lever hit the
dominoes with enough force to knock them over. We realized
that the dominoes we were using were too light, so on our very
last build day we brought in real dominoes, and they work almost
perfectly. We got the rest of our steps to work with less
difficulties.
THE END!