Do It Better!

Content/Overall Goal

Our overall goal was to pick an old project that we had previously done this year and do it better! We got choose any one we wanted in our group so there was 3 total group members (including me). We decided to redo our trebuchet and make it better from our original trebuchets. We all took a look back at our old trebuchets and decided that we needed to make our new one bigger and stronger. We did what we needed to do and our project ultimately came out as a success.

Content

Kinetic Energy- The amount of energy that an object has while in motion

Horizontal velocity- Vhoriz=dhoriz/t

Vertical Velocity- Vvert=agt

Kinetic Energy- KE=½ (m)v2

Vertical Distance- Vvert=½ agt2

Reflection

This project was definitely not the hardest project because of our previous experience with this project. For the most part we were always doing something to help our project and making our project the best it could possibly be. Two things that I worked on were collaboration and creativity. I did well with collaboration because I did a lot to help the group and tried to help others. Creativity was something that I improved on because we as a group had to establish some creativity to make our trebuchet better than previously. Two things that I feel like I need to work on is communication and time management. There were times when I would talk about stuff but it would be off topic and not about our project. For time management there were some times where we had some spare time but would just waste it on our phones or computer. Overall I had a blast doing the is project with two of my good friends and we completed our task which was awesome.