1. By: Vincent McCoy Kathy Erickson Josh Debity Rich Adams
Flushed!!!
By: Vincent McCoy
Kathy Erickson
Josh Debity
Rich Adams

2. The Team

3. Introduction
Our project’s goal was to make a contraption that closed a toilet seat.
Our parts were mostly found around the house. We purchased a large mousetrap that cost roughly 3 dollars.
Other expenses were the cost of wood to build the base and a few screws.

4. Overview
Our first step is to release a golf ball down a ramp. Then it lands on a mousetrap. Attached to the arm of the mousetrap is a long stick of wood.
There is a piece of string attached to the piece of wood. The string is attached to a toilet seat at the opposite end of the project. When the trap is set off, it lowers the toilet seat.

5. Flushed!!!

6. Energy Conversions Ball Mousetrap Toilet Seat
Gravitational Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy
Mousetrap
Spring Potential Energy to Rotational Kinetic Energy
Toilet Seat

7. Conclusions
The building of the project took 5 hours of work by all four team members. Much more time was used in planning and reports.
We encountered some problems including:
Construction of the mousetrap to work with the pole on it
Repositioning the string to enable us to mount the toilet seat.
We are glad to get EF out of our systems!!!