1. EF 151 Team Project
Carmageddon
Dec 5th 2006

2. Team Members Jonathan Taylor Michael Johnson Debra Brice
Phillip Guidry

3. The Carmageddon

4. Purpose
The purpose of this device is to show the use of conservation of energy to release a car.

5. Step One Step Two Car rolls down tube into dominoes
Dominoes fall and knock marble off platform

6. Step Three
Marble falls into vertical tube and continues down series of tubes towards mouse trap

7. Step Four
Marble leaves final tube and activates mouse trap which releases the gate and allows the car to go

8. Energy Conversions Step One: Potential to Kinetic Energy
Step Two: Kinetic to Potential/Kinetic Energy (Also elastic collision)
Step Three: Potential to Gravitational Energy (Free Fall)
Step Four: Potential to Kinetic Energy with mouse trap and car

9. Conclusion
We were successfully able to build a device that uses conservation of energy to perform a simple task.
The device is inefficient due to complexity and series of tasks involved in achieving the simple task.
But it works yayyy!!!!