Radical Rube Goldberg

In class today my teacher assigned my class to write about the energy (Mechanical, potential and kinetic) for our rube Goldberg project.

 

A Rube Goldberg Machine: A simple task done in a complicated manner.

 

My Rube Goldberg team consists of Hope, Tessa and me. For this project, my team has to create a seven to ten step Rube Goldberg machine that in the end will complete a simple task.

 

So far, we have discovered and tried three different attempts on creating our Rube Goldberg machine. Our first attempt came out a little to much like a fantasy and it was not very realistic. For example, one of the steps was supposed to have a can send a basketball rolling and then knock a water bottle bottle off a table. It must include a lot of force that the can did not have.

 

Our second attempt had contained some good and not so good steps.This led us to our third design. We were extra careful choosing steps for this design. We took some of the steps from the first and second design and came up with the rest.

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