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Q: Help W/physics Homework Plz
asked by: greekjohn on January 31st, 2007
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Hi there I was hoping someone could help me with my physics homeowrk/project. I built a rude goldberg machine and I need to write down all the energy transformations but I am stuck.

What my machine does:

marble rolls down ramp a, then falls onto ramp b. Rolls down ramp b to a tube wherer is slides down. It falls into a cup which is on a see-saw. The other side of the see-saw comes up and hits a car which is on a ramp that is elevated up and the car rolls down the ramp and hits a shaft which goes through a hole which the other end of the shaft hits a row of dominoes. The dominoes fall down and the last one hit a toothpick attatched to a mousetrap which engages the trap to disengage and snap. Now the force of that pushed up a hammer the rings a bell.



I've figured out that it starts off with kinetic energy which then turns into gravity energy when it goes down the tube. And when the hammer hits the bell thats sound energy. But i'm not sure what kind of energy is in the rest of it so if any one could help that would be great.
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lil_blaze2004
replied on January 31st, 2007
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Shocked


sorry I work in marketing-lol

good luck!!
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blulyneguy
replied on January 31st, 2007
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I believe its called "flux capacitor energy". Approximately 1.21 gigawatts or 6 jules. It is derived from the energy in my brain trying to process what you just said. Shocked
but seriously, I have no idea!
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Fairy Godmother
replied on January 31st, 2007
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I Believe Its Rube Goldberg?
If you will go to the search engine "dogpile" and type in rube goldberg, you will obtain lots of resourses. You may also type in law of physics. Hope this helps you! I'm too damned old to try to remember all of this!
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greekjohn
replied on January 31st, 2007
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Yes and then when we reach approximatley 88 mp/h we will be transported to any given time we choose

blulyneguy wrote:
i believe its called "flux capacitor energy". Approximately 1.21 gigawatts or 6 jules. It is derived from the energy in my brain trying to process what you just said. Shocked
but seriously, I have no idea!
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blulyneguy
replied on January 31st, 2007
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greekjohn wrote:
yes and then when we reach approximatley 88 mp/h we will be transported to any given time we choose

blulyneguy wrote:
i believe its called "flux capacitor energy". Approximately 1.21 gigawatts or 6 jules. It is derived from the energy in my brain trying to process what you just said. Shocked
but seriously, I have no idea!


nice to see someone knows what the f*&! I'm talkin about. Laughing
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imaginary
replied on February 1st, 2007
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This Will Certainly Help U.
U may better use this site:
www.Physicsforums.Com
to clear more doubts about most of the subjects(not only physics)
hope this helped u. :d
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