Monday, June 9, 2014

Physics Roller Coaster Reflection 4-Hamiz

Our Roller Coaster Presentation is finally done now. From this Roller Coaster Project I have learned all of Newtons Laws and have learned a lot about force. The thing I liked the best about this project is that we got to work with a group we chose, and that we could work at our own pace. If I could do this project again I would spray paint our boxes before building it because it was much harder decorating it after we finished.

 

 

Monday, June 2, 2014

Physics Project Reflection 3-Hamiz

I think that our progress on our roller coaster is good because now it works almost every time. We are going to decorate it up more to make it look better. We took our loop out because it was too frustrating because it kept messing up. Inertia has helped us a lot because since our marble wants to keep doing what it's doing, it builds up speed which makes many other stuff much easier. Its been really nice taking the loop off the top because now our marble has more momentum and can make the bottom loop and camelback to work.


Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Physics Project Reflection 2-Hamiz

Our Physics Roller Coaster Project had been really good so far. Tape has been the most helpful of all the tools because it helps all of our materials stay in place. The one bad thing about our tape is that the friction makes most of the energy go away so we then are left with less energy. To solve this we got a slippery tape which would be more smooth for the marble to go through. We also have to keep our energy balanced because too much energy can make the marble fall off, and too little energy can make it stop moving. Our progress has been great so far and we have tried to make our project as entertaining as we can. The most frustrating part of this is that sometimes our tape wears out and the roller coaster would change a bit, but other than that it's all good.