Project Description
In the Chain Reactions Project, we were tasked with our partner to make a Rube Goldberg Machine with a minimum of ten transitions. Had to have a transition including a magnet and at least one lever. To start the project we had to draw a "napkin" sketch of what we intended our machine to look like. From there we could use the supplies provided to us in school and supplies we could bring from home. The last requirement was that a marble had to land in a Dixie cup.
In the Chain Reactions Project, we were tasked with our partner to make a Rube Goldberg Machine with a minimum of ten transitions. Had to have a transition including a magnet and at least one lever. To start the project we had to draw a "napkin" sketch of what we intended our machine to look like. From there we could use the supplies provided to us in school and supplies we could bring from home. The last requirement was that a marble had to land in a Dixie cup.
Step / Energy / Description of Transitions
Ale Martinez
Ted Cuevas
Physics - Luchadores
4 October, 2016
Chain Reaction
To make my reaction more successful, I would have taken my time to make a better plan-drawing. Towards the end we ran out of ideas and were coming up with new ones last minute that could have been better thought out.
I would have liked to communicate better with my partner by asking him if he needed help or had a different method of building it (ideas).
Me and my partner both contributed to our creation. We each worked both on our own sections and together on other individual sections. We both also had our individual ideas in the reaction and ideas we planned out together.
I would rate myself a 6/10 in using class time effectively because more towards the beginning I was off task and leaned the work on my partner. I would like to improve by contributing to the projects more and adding in after school time. Also to support my partner in group work.
I noticed I would get more focused on my work towards the end, I guess you could say in stressful situations, it’s when reality kicks in. Whats makes me unfocused is when I worry less about it and think I have enough time to complete the project to where I can relax.
I felt like giving up when we were working on the same pair of transitions for multiple days because we just couldn’t get it to work and i wasn't really thinking of how i could fix it but when this would be over so we could move on. Motivation would help preserver when things get hard because I get a negative mind set when things don't work out or when i get tired of the situation.
I believe one of the moments where I showed growth mindset was two days before the deadline where things had gone not so great the day before, but i worked with my partner and we kept pushing to get things to work. At the end of that day we got four transitions completed and from their to the next day we completed our chain reaction.
- GPE/KE: The steel marble is released and travels down the wooden path
- GPE/KE: The steel marble lands on a lever, that tilts and a steel marbles and a second marble roll down to hit a straw panel.
- GPE/KE: The straw panel rotates on a nail to to hit a marble.
- KE: The marble rolls down and knocks off a square of wood that’s connected with a string to a second square of wood above.
- GPE/KE: When the square of wood above falls it releases a steel marble.
- KE: The steel marble rolls down the incline and lands in a Dixie cup. The Dixie cup is connected to another cup with a string. So the Dixie cup with the steel marble goes down and the empty one goes up.
- GPE/KE:The Dixie cup traveling up hits a lever and tilts it the opposite way and releases a marble.
- KE: The marble that rolled down hits a steel marble and sends it off.
- MPE: The steel marble rolls down and attracts to a magnet that's attracting two other steel marbles and releases the one on the end off.
- KE: The steel marble sent off now hits a square of wood that’s connected with a string to a second square of wood and they both fall.
- GPE/KE: A marble is released and rolls down a paper tube and comes out the other end to hit a square of wood connected with a string to another square of wood.
- GPE/KE: A second marble is then released, rolls through the tunnel, to hit off another square of wood connected to a string with a second square of wood on it.
- GPE/KE: A third marble is then released, rolls through the tunnel, to hit off another square of wood connected to a string with a second square of wood on it.
- GPE/KE: When the wood falls it takes the weight off the left side of a lever, and the lever tilts to the right.
- KE: When the lever tilts a car rolls down a ramp and lands in a Dixie cup.
Ale Martinez
Ted Cuevas
Physics - Luchadores
4 October, 2016
Chain Reaction
To make my reaction more successful, I would have taken my time to make a better plan-drawing. Towards the end we ran out of ideas and were coming up with new ones last minute that could have been better thought out.
I would have liked to communicate better with my partner by asking him if he needed help or had a different method of building it (ideas).
Me and my partner both contributed to our creation. We each worked both on our own sections and together on other individual sections. We both also had our individual ideas in the reaction and ideas we planned out together.
I would rate myself a 6/10 in using class time effectively because more towards the beginning I was off task and leaned the work on my partner. I would like to improve by contributing to the projects more and adding in after school time. Also to support my partner in group work.
I noticed I would get more focused on my work towards the end, I guess you could say in stressful situations, it’s when reality kicks in. Whats makes me unfocused is when I worry less about it and think I have enough time to complete the project to where I can relax.
I felt like giving up when we were working on the same pair of transitions for multiple days because we just couldn’t get it to work and i wasn't really thinking of how i could fix it but when this would be over so we could move on. Motivation would help preserver when things get hard because I get a negative mind set when things don't work out or when i get tired of the situation.
I believe one of the moments where I showed growth mindset was two days before the deadline where things had gone not so great the day before, but i worked with my partner and we kept pushing to get things to work. At the end of that day we got four transitions completed and from their to the next day we completed our chain reaction.