We wanted to see if we could pop a balloon. My group has not
calculated the mechanical advantage. The energy that we used is that we do not
know what it is because we didn't get to that point. We did not have any
difficulty until we got to a point of where we didn't know what to do next. We
did use four out of the six simple machines. We used incline plane, wedge,
wheel and axle and lever. I drew out all of the draft of out project
but I didn't do the final drawing of the project. One of my partners and I did
pretty much all of the hard part. We had 11 steps to be able to pop a balloon. A.
Car goes down a ramp and one of us hits it B. Car hits the golf ball C. Golf
ball goes down the first ramp D. Golf ball goes down the second ramp E. The
metal bar falls on the fork. F. The fork flings the wooden block up G. The cube
knocks the domino's over H. The domino's hot the ball over so it falls off the
table. I. The ball lands on the sew saw J. The see saw pushes the pin over K.
The pin pops the balloon.
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