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Mangonel

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Project Title: Move It!      Group Members:BROOK,JADE AND KATE.

Group Roles:   Designer: BROOK   Prototype Builder : JADE Google Docs Guru:KATE

DESCRIPTION OF CONTEXT:  Investigating ways of transferring energy to cause movement in vehicles
BRIEF: (add yours in here, copy and paste from this file) Mangonel To build a device to shoot a table­ tennis ball over a barrier, the height being increased after each round. You are only allowed to hold the ball before ‘firing’, you must not hold the frame of the device and neither may it be taped to the floor. Only one person from a team is permitted to hold and fire the mangle. You will be allowed one attempt at each barrier height, so your device must be reliable and also sufficiently robust to last several rounds. Assessment – SOLO Rubric  (see below)
Prior Knowledge needed: How are forces used in the real world to create this type of movement? (provide examples and/or drawings from what you already know) * WE ARE USING FRICTION BY PUTTING THE BALLOON AND TOILET ROLL TOGETHER AND THEY ARE RUBBING TO CREATE FRICTION. *  * *WHEN YOU PULL THE BALLOON BACK AND LET IT GO THRUST IS CREATED WHICH PUSHES THE PING PONG BALL FORWARDS.
Resources required: ping bong ball balloon toilet roll	KEY FOCUS:      Follow the Technological Process Ask What is the goal? Why must we create this technology? Imagine What will the technology look like? What kind of research should we do? Plan How can we achieve the goal? Design your prototype Create Build a prototype(first design) and observe if problems occur. Improve Generate  solutions/fixes to the original prototype Evaluate how successful your design was.

Timetable for completion of tasks:

Date	Task	√ if deadline met
Friday 4 September	Choose your group and your challenge.  Add group names to google doc.	√
Tuesday 8 September	On google doc add brief and details in Prior Knowledge section. Resources are organised, add list to google doc.	√
Wednesday 9 September	Plan is drawn, labelled and photo of it added to this doc.	√
Tuesday 15 September	First prototype made and trialed.  Notes made on this doc.	√
Wednesday 16 September	Improvements made and tested. Notes made on this doc.  Photo of design added to this doc. SOLO Rubric completed.	√

Photo of the drawing of your design, include labels describing parts of your model and materials used.  Date Completed____16/9_______
Add a photo of your design:  Date completed______16/9________
First Trial Notes It went will but it was not great i thing we need to add somethings	Refinements Needed it went 1.5m	Date completed 9/9
Second Trial Notes it fell apart when we played with it	Refinements Needed we need to make a new one	Date Completed 16/9
Final Trial Notes It did not work and we need a new design	How successful was our design? not really good but OK	Date Completed 17/9
How well did the members of our team work? You have $300 to award to the members of your team according to: the effort they put in to making your team work well the effort they put in to helping your challenge to be successful. Allocate the $300 amongst your team according to this criteria. Name $$ earned Reason 1.JADE 100 BECAUSE SHE HAS HELPED A LOT AND GETTING OUT OF HER ZONE. 2.KATE 100 BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN A GOOD MEMBER AND HELPING THE GROUP   3.BROOK 100 BECAUSE SHE HELPED BY USING HER BRAIN FOR THE WHEN SHE WAS DRAWING THE DESIGN

Our Balloon Powered Vehicle.

Home Doggy Home

By jade!

Dog kennels and houses are usually pretty boring, just a wooden box with some blankets for outside dogs to hide away in at night and when it’s raining.

But just like some people have pretty fancy houses, some dogs do too! Check out these dog houses that look good enough for humans to move into!

Mechanical energy

n the physical sciences, mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and 
kinetic energy. It is theenergy associated with the motion and position of an object.



 In the physical sciences, mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy. It is the energy associated with the motion and position of an object. The principle of conservation of mechanical energy states that in an isolated system that is only subject to conservative forces the mechanical energy is constant. If an object is moved in the opposite direction of a conservative net force, the potential energy will increase and if the speed (not the velocity) of the object is changed, the kinetic energy of the object is changed as well.


 In all real systems, however, non-conservative forces, like frictional forces, will be present, but often they are of negligible values and the mechanical energy's being constant can therefore be a useful approximation. In elastic collisions, the mechanical energy is conserved but in inelastic collisions, some mechanical energy is converted into heat. The equivalence between lost mechanical energy (dissipation) and an increase in temperature was discovered by James Prescott Joule.

Many modern devices, such as the electric motor or the steam engine, are used today to convert mechanical energy into other forms of energy, e.g. electrical energy, or to convert other forms of energy, like heat, into mechanical energy.

Welcome to the Rat Pack A man in Germany has been found living with around 300 rats in his two bedroom flat!

Animal services responded to a call for help from the man who told them he could no longer care for his 20 pet rats. However when they arrived at the flat, they found a lot more than 20!

Animal control found nests of hungry rat babies in drawers, behind cabinets and in the bed frame. The entire apartment was covered in straw and sawdust, with food bowl laid out on the floor.

The animal shelter could only house 20 of the rats, so the remainder will be kept and fed in the flat until new owners and homes can be found for them.

Check out the pictures below of what animal services discovered in the apartment!