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Flushed!!!

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

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Flushed!!!

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  1. 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 • Gravitational Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy • Mousetrap • Spring Potential Energy to Rotational Kinetic Energy • Toilet Seat • Gravitational Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy

  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!!!

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