What is a Rube Goldberg machine? well its a series of complicated events working towards a simple task. For example the Rube Goldberg machine that i made is a series of ramps, pullies, levers, wheels, and tubes working to make whip cream and sprinkles go on a cookie.
Our build record
At the start we had three days to start a blueprint and come up with our theme, then we had nine other days to start building our project by making the first few ramps and then around halfway we stared on the tube and a wheel and axel, towards the end we built our whip cream and sprinkles contraption. then we had three extra days to tweak, decorate, and practice our presentation.
5 simple machines
For our Rube Goldberg machine we needed five of the six simple machines and our five simple machines were multiple inclines, a wheel and axel, screw, a pulley, and a lever
What I learned
In this project I learned a lot as well as things about myself and my group. this project for ninth graders is a great way to sow their thinking process
like how my process was how the design will work out and the function of the project rather than the look of the project. This project taught me the physics of the five simple machines and different energy transfers. But now myself, I learned that I need to be more open and not be so, "do this, do that" to some people and also the fact that I also need to make my directions more clear. for our project mainly its that ours didn't really work so I had to step up in front of multiple people to make it work and that as difficult. I need to be able to let things go and also a big one to not procrastinate. This project showed me some things that I didn't know about myself as well as physics.
like how my process was how the design will work out and the function of the project rather than the look of the project. This project taught me the physics of the five simple machines and different energy transfers. But now myself, I learned that I need to be more open and not be so, "do this, do that" to some people and also the fact that I also need to make my directions more clear. for our project mainly its that ours didn't really work so I had to step up in front of multiple people to make it work and that as difficult. I need to be able to let things go and also a big one to not procrastinate. This project showed me some things that I didn't know about myself as well as physics.