Evidence of Work

For this project, we were learning about forces. To further help our understanding of forces, we were assigned the "Fast Car" project. We originally had started with any object that we could hook a force measure onto. Our group started with a book, and we were told to measure the static friction and kinetic friction on a smooth surface, as well as on a rough board. Once we recorded our data, we were able to get started on the actual project where we made a "Fast Car" by taking and object and adding forces to it.

Most groups had taken wooden blocks, or other various objects, and added wheels to their project as we were supposed to create a car. Our group was either innovative, or cutting corners, depending on how you look at it as our group did not build a car, but used the rolling chars in the classroom as our car. Once our car was created, we had to test the friction on different surfaces with the chair. This went well as our numbers were incredibly low.

For the next part of the project, we had to add forces to our car to make it move as fast as possible. We had to measure these forces, and measure the effect it had on the car to learn about forces. Once the forces we applied were all tested and measured, we were to create a presentation as seen above.

Content

There were many pieces of content we went over during this unit including concepts and equations. These are all of them:

Reflection

For this unit, there were a couple things I felt I did well, and there are some things I still need to work on. Two of the things I did really well this unit were collaboration and communication. Our group had collaborated really well as we all had come to agreements on what to do. We had debates over what we should do with our project, and always came out in agreement. Our communication was also elite because we always knew what we were going to do as we would always tell each other what our plan for the day was and what we were going to get done. This allowed us to be able to work as a full system as each person worked as a gear in a moving machine.

Two that I need to work on are being a conscientious learner, and just working harder in general. Our group was not being conscientious learners as we were using old equations and old methods to find our numbers. This resulted in it taking longer for us to get our numbers, and sometimes the numbers were very wrong. The second problem was that we did not work hard. We spent many days messing around, and not working which resulted in us being in a pinch to finish the presentation the day before it was due. We also did not manage our time well as we thought we were very far behind, yet we were actually behind. I think for next project, we should try to just finish as quickly as possible while maintaining a high level of work. We should also always work hard to ensure we are done well ahead of time.