Blog Post 3: Alex Frey

A. One major change we have made to our original design is the fact that we are no longer building the entire project on one side of the board but we are now building on both sides, back and front. We made this decision because by utilizing both sides, it 1. Displays intricacy and thought and 2. It allows for more space to build. B. One challenge we have faced up to this point is actually building on the back side of the board without disrupting what is on the front side and vice versa. Sometimes, incline planes and the zip ties that hold them get in the way of other simple machines and devices on the opposite side, resulting in a bit of reconstruction that takes up precious time. C. Besides simple machines and energy transfers, two other concepts related to physics would be that of projectiles and that of collisions. Concerning projectiles, the whole aim of the project is to launch a golf ball and have it land on a plate some centimeters away, well by calculating the angle at which it is launched, the weight of the ball, and how fast it is launched, we can estimate the approximate landing spot of the ball. The concept of collisions comes into play when in our project two objects hit each other, resulting in one object moving forward and another staying still. For this to work, things like mass and velocity must be accounted for. Group 32: Alex Frey Nick Hartley Gordon Webb Sebastian Tran