Blog Post 2 Group 32

Gordon Webb, Alex Frey, Sebstian Tran, and Nick Hartly
Blog Post Two

1. What simple machines do you plan to incooperate and how do you plan to use them?
- We are using inclined planes, pulleys, and a wedge.  In the beginning we used several inclined planes to get the marble down to the floor so that it would hit the mouse trap. Once the marble hit the mouse trap then it would snap and pull a string that was attached to a note card acting as a wedge between two plastic tubes and that released bbs and those were guided into an empty Gatorade bottle and that was attatched to the pulley.

2. What energy transfers do you plan to incorperate and how will they be demnstrated in your project?
- We have GPE going to KE, EPE going to KE, we had KE going to no energy at a sudden stop and we had potential energy going to GPE then KE. Finally, we had electric energy in the light bulb that went off.


3. Finally, how has each group member specifically contributed to the project since the start?
- Alex and I drew out the ideas for the sketches and we finally put those together and we had to modify while we were building. Nick did a lot while actually building and he took charge and tried things out. He is a very good hands on thinker. Sebastian was also up there with Alex with coming up when things went down the drain. I was a helping hand while building because I could some stuff and just listened to what the others said. I also bought some supplies for the launcher, Unfortunately, all of us except Nick had class during the testing.