Mousetrap Car

Question 1

Axle

Answer 1

The pin, bar, shaft, or the like, in which or by means of which a wheel or pair of wheels rotates

Question 2

Power

Answer 2

Rate of doing work

Question 3

Inertia

Answer 3

The tendency for objects at rest to remain at rest, and for objects in uniform motion to continue in motion in a straight line, unless acted on by an outside force
(Newtons 1st Law)

Question 4

Wheel

Answer 4

A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center

Question 5

Fulcrum

Answer 5

A pivot point around which a lever turns, or somethings that plays a central role or is in the center of a situation or activity

Question 6

Kinetic Energy

Answer 6

The energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body or a given mass from rest to its stated velocity

Question 7

Pull

Answer 7

An act of using force to move something towards you or in the same direction that you are moving

Question 8

Lever

Answer 8

System consisting of a bar pivoting in a fulcrum to lift a load. The amounts of effort required is related to the position of the pivot and the length of the bar

Question 9

Push

Answer 9

To use force to move (something or someone) forward or away from you

Question 10

Potential energy

Answer 10

The stored energy or position possessed by an object

Question 11

Tool

Answer 11

A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function

Question 12

Spring

Answer 12

A resilient device, typically a helical metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape when released, used chiefly to exert constant tension or absorb movement

Question 13

Machine

Answer 13

Semi or fully automated device that magnifies human physical and/or mental capabilities in performing one or more operations. A mechanical decide that changes direction or magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical (also called leverage) to multiply force

Question 14

Wedge

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A pice or hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting object by applying a pounding or driving force as from a hammer

Question 15

Aerodynamics

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A science that studies the movement or air and the way that objects (such as airplanes or cars) move through the air

Question 16

Torque

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A measure of how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate

Question 17

Work

Answer 17

Is done when a force that is applied to an object moves that object. Work is calculated by multiplying the force by the amounts of movement of an object (W=f*d)

Question 18

Chassis

Answer 18

A frame upon which the main parts of an automobile are built

Question 19

Acceleration

Answer 19

A vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity. And object is accelerating if it has a change of velocity

Question 20

Force

Answer 20

A push or pull upon an object resulting from the object’s interaction with another object