Saturday, May 31, 2014

Physics project 2014- Blog 3

 

My team's progress has improved dramaticly.Our Roller coaster now looks better,and we have added more stunts to make it better.Inertia gave us alot of trouble at the beginning because,when we first made the loop.Everytime the marble would go theough the loop and then jump off track.It took us some time but at the end we found out that there was too much energy for the marble to handle , so we started the marble at a lower point on the roller coaster.Now the marble goes through the loop perfectly and stays on track.what has been really frustrating is that my partners are still not taking this project seriously.Last thursday we had building time after school,one of them didn't come and the other one who came left early.The roller coaster has improved and hopefully next class we will add some more stunts for the marble.

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Physics Project Reflection 2

This is Blog number 2 for our physics project.Today we got way more boxes so we actually started building.Our Roller coaster startes at a high point so the marble will have enough energy to go through the first obsticle which is a three sixty spin.I think we did really well and are starting to cach up.What I find really frustrating is that there is one person in our group that is not working at all.I am realy excited to see the output of this roller coaster,but we still have a long way to go .