Step Description
Conversion
1. The elastic attached to the
popsicle stick, is attached to
the box. You pull the stick
with the elastic band, which
will hit the toy car.
2. The car rolls down, which
creates friction as well. It then
goes into the first cup. The
first cup will go down due to
the car weight.
3. While the first cup goes
down, the second one goes
up. The second cup will also
hit the bells. The second cup
will end up hitting the first
ball.
4. The first ball then hits the
second ball, rolling into the
hole of the tape. The tape will
roll down.
5. The second ball in the tape
hits the mousetrap, snapping
off the popsicle stick holdin
the lever. The sponge
attached to the lever will fall
down
6. There is tin foil under the
sponge. The candle is under
the sponge, so when the
sponge goes down, it will
extinguish the candle.
Simple Machine/Energy
Inclined plane
Energy Before: ​Elastic
potential energy
Energy After:​ Kinetic energy
Inclined plane
Energy Before: ​Kinetic
energy
Energy After: ​Gravitational
potential energy
Pulley
Energy Before: ​Gravitational
potential energy
Energy After: ​Sound energy
Pulley
Energy Before: ​Kinetic
energy
Energy After: ​Kinetic energy
Lever
Energy Before​: Gravitational
potential energy
Energy After: ​Kinetic energy
Energy Before: ​Elastic and
kinetic energy
Energy After: ​Thermal
energy
Energy lost in contraption

The step that will lose most of its energy would be the final step. Step 6 is when it loses all of its
energy due to the flame being extinguished at the end. All the energy gained from steps 1-5 will
be lost as the flame goes out.

Specifications of contraption

Length of box: 50cm

Height of box: 28cm
Width of box: 35cm

Length of car: 4.5cm

Width of car: 3.0cm

First Inclined plane: 19.0cm, width- 7.1cm

Flat platform: 15.7cm

Last Inclined plane: 26.8cm, width- 7.8cm

Height of cup:19.0cm
Diameter of cup: 7.5cm
Diameter of pulley wheel: 5.5cm

Diameter of blue ball: 6.0cm

Area of blue ball: 4 π r 2 = 113.09cm​2
Diameter of tennis ball: 5.5cm
Area of tennis ball: 4 π r​2 ​= 95.02cm​2

Width of the lever: 7.0cm

Length of the lever: 31.2cm
Height of the lever above candle: 13.5cm

Length of popsicle stick (For first step of elastic): 15.5cm