We created a hovercraft to symbolize Newton's three laws of motion.
We began with a large piece of wood. To give the board the necessary circular form, we cut it to size and sanded it. We're using a plastic sheet to cut out a circle with a 5-foot diameter. Our wood plank has a 1/4-inch hole in the center, and the plank's perimeter has duck tape wrapped around it. Making a stencil will let us cut out three circles in the plastic with an even spacing between each one. They cut out a smaller circle in the center of the plastic sheet with a ruler before cutting out the larger circles. On the second largest circle, they cut out the smaller circles using the circle stencil. The next step is to trace and then cut out a vacuum hole. A 1 -nch wide drill bit was used. Using screws, we connected the wood board and plastic sheet. Turning it upside down with the plastic sheet on the bottom, we screwed the plastic sheet in.
For this project, we created a lantern of a well-known physicist which was used in the Drew Charter Annual Lantern Parade. The physicist my partner and I chose to display was George Washington Carver. We chose a picture of him and also some harvesting tools to display the work he did with farming. We used cardboard, paint, a picture formatting app called Inkscape, and a laser printer in our engineering lab to make the sides of the lantern. We then strung some fairy lights through the center and the top of the cardboard to make it a lantern.
When creating this project we reflected on resistance, voltage, and current which helped us to complete the circuits. The circuit at the top of the picture is a series circuit (single path of flowing current) and the bottom circuit is a parallel circuit (circuit comprised of different branches which allow part of the current to flow through any branch). Both were made using aluminum foil for the conductor, LED Lights, a 9V battery, tape, and brass push pins as the switches.