Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age! - Activity - TeachEngineering

Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer using the engineering design process. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO© MINDSTORMS© EV3 Education Core Set and a HiTechnic© acceleration sensor. They use acceleration data collected during the launch to compute velocity and displacement vs. time graphs. In the process, students learn about the importance of fitting mathematical models to measurements of physical quantities, reinforce their knowledge of Newtonian mechanics, deal with design compromises, learn about data acquisition and logging, and carry out collaborative assessment of results from all participating teams.

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There is nothing better to solidify the students understanding of Energy than to have them build and test out their mouse trap cars. Many times,

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Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age! - Activity - TeachEngineering