for our most recent assignment we wer taske with creating a more effiecient hybrid car engine. i was paired up with eric lewandowski and toran moriyami-gurish. we spent quite a lot of time brainstorming for the perfect solution an energy efficient vehicle at a cheap price.
our first dsign was utilizing compressed air to our advantage. we placed the canisters on a small vehicle and we put 2 compressed air canisters for every trial we ran. we eventually abandoned this desighn because we learnedthat compressed air can be qiute unreliable. otherwise known as, it kept blowng p everytime we tried it.
our second design was mainly spring based like many other groups working on the same project. we acquired a skatebpoard andbegan working. we worked until we realized our design was not going to work. we kept tweaking and tweaking and tweaking untl we finally gae up.
our third design, the one that actually "worked" was using a battery powered engine i had gotten when i was 8 years old. we bult that with some of torns knex and used it as our final product.
while eric and toran spent our last few days tweaking it and calculating is statistics, i was working on our presentation. i wanted t a video and it actually worked very well. the video is below and since me and torryn spoke during the script is below the video.
our first dsign was utilizing compressed air to our advantage. we placed the canisters on a small vehicle and we put 2 compressed air canisters for every trial we ran. we eventually abandoned this desighn because we learnedthat compressed air can be qiute unreliable. otherwise known as, it kept blowng p everytime we tried it.
our second design was mainly spring based like many other groups working on the same project. we acquired a skatebpoard andbegan working. we worked until we realized our design was not going to work. we kept tweaking and tweaking and tweaking untl we finally gae up.
our third design, the one that actually "worked" was using a battery powered engine i had gotten when i was 8 years old. we bult that with some of torns knex and used it as our final product.
while eric and toran spent our last few days tweaking it and calculating is statistics, i was working on our presentation. i wanted t a video and it actually worked very well. the video is below and since me and torryn spoke during the script is below the video.
in our video we discuss such concepts as acceleration, thermal energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, and velocity.
velocity: speed in a given direction, speed of an object moving a certain way.
acceleration: the rate at which something increases in speed, the rate at which something increases in velocity
kinetic energy: the energy an objet possesses due to its motion
potential energy: the given energy at a given postion in its motion
thermal energy: the part of the total kinetic enrgy and the total potential energy that result in the system temperature.
in our video we present graphs of each of these subjects, relating time to distance, velocity to distance, distance to acceleraton and thermal energy to kinetc energy and potential energy.
throughuout our design process, we had many flaws and some successes. i leanred that whatever the design is i will do my best to make it work, and if it doesn't, i will move on.
I hope I leanred hat very much failure leads to success.
Our project had many pitfalls, such as our first two designs, but we eventually succeeded as a group.
velocity: speed in a given direction, speed of an object moving a certain way.
acceleration: the rate at which something increases in speed, the rate at which something increases in velocity
kinetic energy: the energy an objet possesses due to its motion
potential energy: the given energy at a given postion in its motion
thermal energy: the part of the total kinetic enrgy and the total potential energy that result in the system temperature.
in our video we present graphs of each of these subjects, relating time to distance, velocity to distance, distance to acceleraton and thermal energy to kinetc energy and potential energy.
throughuout our design process, we had many flaws and some successes. i leanred that whatever the design is i will do my best to make it work, and if it doesn't, i will move on.
I hope I leanred hat very much failure leads to success.
Our project had many pitfalls, such as our first two designs, but we eventually succeeded as a group.