Final Design Process Reflection

By: Reese

Group members =  Luke.P, Lorenzo.

My groups track was made with 3 ring magnets 6 long strip magnets then 2 little strip magnets. Our train was made with 4 little strip magnets 1 ring magnet 2 north/south magnets.  We arranged the track by putting the 6 long strip magnets on the bottom of the track, the ring magnets on top of them and the 2 little strips on the sides repelling. We made the train with 4 short magnets on the edges and one ring magnet in the middle.

Our first problem that we figured out was it did not levitate. We wondered why, so we double checked that everything was on the right side and it was. Then we figured it out everything needs to mirror meaning everything needs to line up.

Our final design worked and we were happy. It worked because everything was repelling and mirroring. For our track we used 3 strip magnets. We arranged it by having the 3 strip magnets lined up with a little space in between. For our train we had 3 short strip magnets. We lined them up by doing the same thing like we did on the track, we left a little space in between each of the short strip magnets.

One  of my thoughts during the project was frustrated. I was not frustrated because my team couldn’t come up with the design but I was because we kept trying and nothing worked the way we wanted, it just wouldn’t  levitate. Another felling of mine was excited. I was excited because I wanted to know how many marbles our train could hold!! The 3 felling I felt was nervous. I was nervous because I was thinking is this idea going to work or will it fail.