Monday, October 22, 2007

Launching From The Moon

Today my partners and I attempted to transport a load of supplies from one end of a string to the other. The materials we were permitted to use to carry the supplies were balloons, a straw, tape, and a cardboard tube. Everything except the tape cost money to use, including every launch attempt. We started out with $4.7 million dollars. It would have been much easier if the other end of the string wasn't higher than the other end. At the end of class we managed to successfully transport the balloon and two sticks to the other side. Unfortunaltley, we did not have enough time to transport anything else.

1 comment:

Mary Margaret said...

So what challenges did you run into that made you run out of time? And how did this lab use Newton's 3rd law?