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Hello everyone,
I am taking physics this year, and our first big project is to design a car that will throw the other cars off the racetrack. (seen below)
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5526/carsketchzu4.jpg
We have the basic car, but now we have to modify it to beat all the other cars.
We have a few ideas:
1. Attach a spatula to the end of the car that flips the other car underneath after x amount of time. (This seems the coolest, but also the hardest..is it even possible!?)
2. Take off all but the bare essentials and load it up with weights. This will make it low to the ground and hard to knock off.
3. Take off the wheels and most of the frame. It sounds wierd, but we are pushing the car forward along the track, so it would still move forward. It most likely would never come off the race track..
4. Attach magnets to the bottom of the car so that it is attracted to the track and doesn't come off as easily.
...any other ideas? Are these plausible, or just stupid?
Thanks a ton in advance for all your help, and I hope to be a contributing member of this forum!
-Connor
I am taking physics this year, and our first big project is to design a car that will throw the other cars off the racetrack. (seen below)
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5526/carsketchzu4.jpg
We have the basic car, but now we have to modify it to beat all the other cars.
We have a few ideas:
1. Attach a spatula to the end of the car that flips the other car underneath after x amount of time. (This seems the coolest, but also the hardest..is it even possible!?)
2. Take off all but the bare essentials and load it up with weights. This will make it low to the ground and hard to knock off.
3. Take off the wheels and most of the frame. It sounds wierd, but we are pushing the car forward along the track, so it would still move forward. It most likely would never come off the race track..
4. Attach magnets to the bottom of the car so that it is attracted to the track and doesn't come off as easily.
...any other ideas? Are these plausible, or just stupid?
Thanks a ton in advance for all your help, and I hope to be a contributing member of this forum!
-Connor
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