Balloon Popper By: Tommy Townsend, Alaka Hoskins,Justin Dempsey Jeff McRiffey

What We Used? List of Materials 1)Wooden tracks 2)Wooden Balloon Stand 3)A roll of tape 4)Balloons 5)Card Board 6)Thumb tack 7)Rubber balls 8)Wooden see saw

What Goes Where? The Incline 1)The wooden track and stand where used to make the incline as seen

Rubber Bouncy Balls The Rubber balls 1)A small rubber ball is used to initiate the processes 2)The larger ball is a mechanism for transferring momentum

The Seesaw Seesaw 1)The see saw is then used to provide work on the thumbtack to then pop the balloon

Lets Pop the Balloon

Conservation of Energy (calculating how it works) PE= KE +PE m 1 gh 1 = 1/2m 1 v² + m 2 gh 2 PE 1 = PE 2 + E loss

Conclusion Many of the different concepts associated with engineering, to most can be hard to visualize. Professors and TA’s, there job is to help students visualize as many concepts of engineering, which we observe everyday. This is one of those concepts that helps us understanding the theory behind physic concepts like Rube Goldberg using a visual aid.