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Mouse Trap Powered Car
For physics we were given a kit to make a Mouse Trap powered car. The basic concept is: a string is connected to a lever arm that is attached to the spring of a disassembled mouse trap. You have a loop in the other end of the string, that is loosely hooked onto a small nail in the back axle (which is a wooden rod) and you wind it around the axle which pulls the lever arm back causing tension. When you release the lever arm, its supposed to pull the string and spin the axle causing the car to move.
I can't get the car to move more than an inch or two.
Does anyone know how these are supposed to work and have any tips on how i can get mine to work?
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Jeez, its been forever since I did this, but the way we did it was to take the mouse trap and put two wheels on the front, and make a small hole all the way through the back for an axle. Then we cut a little square in the back through the axle hole.
We used either bent out paper clips, or another thin peice of metal as the axle, and little rubber wheels.
The string was wrapped around the axle through the square, and I set mine up so that it could be "fired" (so that my fingers wouldn't get crushed) with a string.
It went a good two dozen feet if I remember correctly.
Anyway, good luck.
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