Phase 4: The Final Trial

We performed three trials in class today, and discovered that our mousetrap car's maximum velocity was 2.545 m/s.

This is the video that captured our fastest trial, Trial #2.

After analyzing the footage in Logger Pro, we found the maximum velocity of 2.545 m/s.

Final Thoughts on our Final Trial

With our previous car we only reached about half of the velocity that we reached today with our new car and even when we remade our car, it didn't initially have the results that were received today. With tweaks to our car, we felt as if we found ways to maximize our kinetic energy. We tried new things such as a different way of setting up our project and that turned out to be very beneficial. Although we learned what to avoid with our old car we wish we had more time with the new car because we feel if we had worked on our second car with the complete duration of the time allotted to us, we could have even further maximized our kinetic energy, but we still are proud of the car we put together.