Rube Goldberg Blog Post 2

For the past five weeks we have been working on a Rube Goldberg Project. A Rube Goldberg is a complex machine that does a simple task. For my Rube Goldberg my simple task was to push a car. In this blog post I will cover the final process. For this Rube Goldberg I built whatever…

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Rube Goldberg Blog Post #1

We started our Rube Goldberg projects recently and so far. A Rube Goldberg is a complex machine that does a simple task. For this project we have to make a Rube Goldberg that has at least 8 steps and 3 simple machines. I have done my first sketch and started building a little. Before I…

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Maglev#1

A maglev train is a train that levitates with magnets. It works by using north and north or south and south to repel. When the magnets on the train and the magnets on the track repel the train levitates! My group decided to do all strip magnets for both track and train.When we used strip…

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Learning About Electromagnet

Today for homework I had two questions to answer. What did you learn about electromagnets? I learned that a electromagnet is a temporary magnet because if you don’t put in the wires it wont work. I also learned that  you have to wrap the wire fully around the bolt or it won’t work that well….

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The Electromagnet

Together me and my partners made an electromagnet! We used a insulated wire, a bolt, a battery, a battery holder and some paper clips. First we wrapped the wire around the bolt, then we slid the end of both wires into the fahnstock clips on the battery holder with a battery in it. We put…

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magnets

Magnets can do many things. There is a south side and a north side. South and south or north and north repell from each othor and north and south stick. You can make things move with magnets. Earth is a big magnet. Magnets can stick to metal. The stronger the magnet the force it has.

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