Pitsco’s EZ Mag Mousetrap Vehicles activity is a great lesson in friction. Students design Mousetrap Vehicles and determine the starting friction using a pulley setup. By adding specified masses to the vehicle, students can calculate the force required to overcome the starting friction. . . .
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Race a mousetrap vehicle against your partner a distance of three meters. Record the test results of each race and calculate the velocity and determine the average velocity of each mousetrap vehicle.
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Pitsco’s Mousetrap Vehicles activity is an exercise in the application of simple machines on a vehicle. Students design vehicles powered only by the energy of mousetraps. By changing the length of a lever, the diameter of a wheel or axle, a gear ratio, or other variables, students observe and . . .
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