Big Blue

Miles Hall

Aaren Rice

Jeff Depriest

Chad Owen

The Crew

The Setup

• Our stamper is made mostly of wood, coat hangers, duct tape, golf balls, fishing wieghts, a mouse trap, and a stamp.

• Our wood was just scrap wood found around the house.

• We bound everything together using gorilla glue and nails.

• We spent a little money on a stamp and duct tape.

Overview

• Our project starts by pushing a golf ball, which collides with two more golfballs. The final golf ball falls down a ramp. The golf ball knocks a cup off of a see-saw.

• This drops a weight attached to the other end of the see-saw. This sets off a mouse trap which stamps the stamp.

Big Blue

Energy Transfers

Golf ball

-perfectly elastic collision

-Gravitational Potentail Energy to kinetic Engery

Mouse Trap

-Spring potential energy to rotational kinetic energy

Conclusion

We spent about 6 hours in constructing the device, and about 4 hours planning it.

We had some problems with:– Getting the wieght to fall on the mouse trap

release.– Aiming the golf ball to hit the cup.

Were gald we got to finish this class on a fun note.