Final Design Process Reflection
By: Brady
Team Members: Sammy and Sofia .S
For our first track design we used eighteen ring magnets and for our car design we used five disc magnets. We arranged our ring magnets in the track by making four squares and putting one magnet inside each square. For our car we placed our magnets in a square with one disc magnet in the square. To hold everything in place we used tape by making little loops and putting the magnets on top.
One problem my group faced is that the disc and ring magnets weren’t letting the car move across the track and . We think it was attracting because the car wouldn’t move across the track. The sides of the magnet must’ve attracted but we needed it to repel. To solve our problem instead of using ring and disc magnets we used strip magnets. We used two long strip magnets and two short strip magnets.
For our final design we used strip magnets for our car and track. For our car we used two short strip magnets. For our track we used two long magnets. We arranged our magnets by putting the long strip magnets on each side of the track one on each side same for the car but with small strip magnets. We lined the magnets on the car and the track up so they can match and the car can move along the track.
While my group was working I felt excited a little because I wanted to see if it would work and I felt frustrated because we tried so many ideas but most of them weren’t working. When we finally got it to work we got excited. I thought at first that this was going to take forever.
