Mousetrap Car

Sara Qadi and Yara Shaheen

Pioneers Baccalaureate School-Nablus, Palestine
3-12-2016
ABSTRACT
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Cars are the most important machine in the world, because it
made people life easier. There are many different kinds of car,
including sport, families car and small cars.i Because of that, people
are using cars a lot. 90% of people using cars in their life to get it
easier, after they knew it are easy to buy a car and ride it than to walk.
The question is, does the car control our life today? First car was

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amazing for that time. In 1658, a man made a car that was
impossible to make, that man was called Ferdinand Verbiest. He was
born in 1623; he helped to make a lot of things by using his mind. He
decided to make car to make our life easier, and that was the surprise,
he invented a car that hold two person but using a lot of things. It was
hard in the first but then they made it easy to move by doing another
type of car.ii

INTRODUCTION
Yara Shaheen + Sara Qadi
`Cars are a machine that made people life easier. In 1653, cars got
invented, and it was big at first but then it got smaller. Until now,
people are trying to make something new from a car, they are fighting
for the people that dont have something to use for moving. The
project that we going to discuss today is a about a mousetrap car and
a mousetrap car is a miniature of the real car. Also mousetrap car is a
small car whose only source of motive power is a mousetrap. Variations
include the use of multiple traps, or very big rat traps, for added
power.

METHODS
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Materials:

1. Clothes hanger
2. 4 CDs
3. 3 woods
4. Saw
5. Pliers
6. Iron wire
7. Plastic ink
8. Silver
9. Scissors
10. Glue gun
11. Tooth pick
12. Mousetrap
13. Balloon
14.
Scalpel
15. Marker
16. Ruler

Procedure:

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Bring all the materials

Bring the 3 wood and measure the three of them
Cut one of them into half
Glue the two half on the 2 woods as a latter
Leave the wood until it will dry
Bring 10 other woods and make it touch with together as one

strong wood and glue them

7. Bring silver
8. Put on it one of the CDs and put it on the silver
9. Glued the 2 CDs on the 10 woods
10. The same steps for the other 2 CDs but put a balloon on
each CD
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Glued each side of the CDs with tooth pick
12. Bring 1 tooth pick that was cut the first of it
13. Glue it on the 10 woods
14. Put on the sides of the 2 woods a plastic ink
15. Bring the wheels
16. Make the tooth picks hold the plastic ink
17. Bring the mousetrap
18. Cut the iron that is on the mousetrap
19. Bring clothes hanger
20. Cut the down side
21. Bring the iron and stick in it
22. And the other half of the mousetrap iron make it stick in it
23. Glued the mousetrap on the shape
24. Bring iron wire
25. Make it stick on the clothes hanger
26. When it will move make it stick on the tooth pick
27. Try the mousetrap car
28. Write the observation
Picture:

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RESULT

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mousetrap car at rest

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90%
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70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
MINUTES

Graphing Speed

3 Distance
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Time

Yara shaheen
Describing result section :
That in the first graph the mousetrap car, was at rest that mean
the distance is o in the slop so if measure the car speed by the slop the
distance will be (o,o) in the speed but maybe the time not o but what
important is the distance because distance to not change and that
when the car is stop and not moving.

In the second graph the mouse trap was at first start from zero
then the mousetrap car speed was fast like at first it was increase then
it was like a steady speed that is still fast then the car moving
decrease a little and it was like a stationery like it is not changing
because not moving.
The speed measuring by the slop, m= y2-y1 divide x2-x21 and
that in the second graph is the points (1, 1) and the second point is
(6,14) so in the slop equation it is like 14-1 divide 6-1 = 13over 5
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= 2.6 m/second the speed of the second graph .

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DISCUSSION
Sara Qadi
Palestine section
Munther Ql-Qassas, who made the electric car in Gaza, who tried
to help people the way he wants. He decided to create a taxi to help
people from standing and waiting. This could be cheaper for people, so

all of them decided to ride it. He builds the car by using recycled
materials, which helped a lot to be better and cheaper. Wood is a good
thing to use, with cheap things, but if it is cheap it could be not be
good enough to build a car. He used things not cheap a lot but it was
fine to use it.iii
In Palestine, cars are moving around and around, people are
trying to get more cars and more to help each other. That could be
hard to get money but that doesnt mean we shouldnt get a car. If we
didnt get one our life couldnt be easy to hold, because of that people
decided to get cars from outside or to make a car. People used a lot of
things to make a car, but when we stop doing things we get less
energy to make. All of that made us get less and people didnt make a
car. We got cars from outside because it is easier to build one that
what Arabs said.

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Pollution section

Cars are from the most important reason, that made the
contaminated environment, that mean cars are a machines and any
machines have a smoke get from it , this smoke can called the risks
smoke in the life , because the smoke that car have are made from
different kind of oxygens from them a Nitrogen , Carbon dioxide
,Benzenes .and many else , so cars can be good but in the same way
it is bad for example if the nitrogen and the carbon mix together and
the sun light go throw it there will be a very bad disease that makes
people life in risk . Also the bad staffs that cars have like the gasoline
or the benzene , when car is walking it makes the fuel combustion ,
and that make the air got dirty because of those things , people life
change to the worst because of the cars , cars are not that important
as people life , so stop using that cars because the less using car the
less risk life .

Yara shaheen
The three laws of motion section
There is a three kinds of motion that is telling how the object is
moving and what is the others things that act on this object and how to
calculate it moving .The first law of motion is that the object on rest

still at rest in tell a unbalance force act on it and the other part is that
a object moving still moving in till a unbalance force act on it. In our
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mousetrap car this law was when the car was not moving and
that is the first part the mousetrap car was in rest , and the other part
when we moved the car to see if it walk fast or not , so that that is the
second part when it was moving and the force is pushing it .
The second law of motion is. Force (Newton) = mass (gram)
x acceleration (m/second square). The specific kind of force is the
weight and it is (weight =mass x 10 the acceleration) and it is 10
because of the earth acceleration. So in our car the weight = 150.5 g x
10 = 1505 N, the weight of the mouse trap car.
The third law of motion is that an object has an action have the
same equal obsessed reaction, and in the mousetrap car this law exist
when push the car forward then the force push it backward.

CONCLUSION
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Mousetrap Car could have a lot of different materials, but that

doesnt mean that everything can help the car. Cars helped the people
to get improved, but it needs more what everyone thought that more
stuff to hold. People could drive a car, but not a little car that doesnt
hold anything, they started with bigger car but now it got smaller
because people like these today. That is a car and that is what
everyone used to make a small car.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Yara shaheen +Sara Qadi
Its amazing to have such a good teacher, that teacher helped us to
analyze everything. That teacher told us about our future and now we
are the future of Palestine, our country. We should thank our teacher
about her work that was not just amazing, no, it was shining all around
the school. The word thank you doesnt mean anything for your work,
so we should thank you with studying and hearts. Even tears couldnt
mean anything for the work that my teacher did.

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i https://www.globalcarsbrands.com/why-cars-are-important-and-why-you-should-invest-in-one /

ii http://jalopnik.com/5816040/who-invented-the-worlds-very-first-car

iiihttp://inhabitat.com/gazas-first-electric-vehicle-built-from-recycled-materials-for-1000 /

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