Well, now she's on to making a Rube Goldberg machine in my basement. I got my Christmas tree last night, but I cannot put my trains up yet because the locomotive is "in use" for this physics project. It has been turned into a deadly weapon for the purposes of popping a balloon that holds back a rope attached to a pulley and weight. When the train pops the balloon, the rope lets go, the weight (one of my mallets) falls, pulling the cord to turn on a light and also smashing a piece of fruit and squirting toothpaste out. The fruit will be on the end of a lever which when pressed down, the other side flips a switch turning on my leaf blower, which will blow a yoga block down, landing on another switch, which will power up an electronic keyboard.
I'll have to post the video when it's all done. 12 energy transfers, 5 "simple machines", 4 electric switches, a pendulum and a partridge in a pear tree...
My locomotive...
I'll have to post the video when it's all done. 12 energy transfers, 5 "simple machines", 4 electric switches, a pendulum and a partridge in a pear tree...
My locomotive...
