Year 10 Forces and Motion Assessment Task

The aim is to make a wind racer and try to make it go the furthest. The equipment we used was two bamboo sticks, tape, trolley, plastic apron, and two skewers. We gathered our equipment and put the first bamboo stick in the hole that the trolley had. Next we taped two skewers on each side of the top of the bamboo stick to make the outline of the sail. We cut the plastic apron so it’s a square shape then taped it on the skewers. With the other bamboo stick we rolled it up at the end of the sail to make sure it holds the wind and makes it go further. Then we just put extra tape on the top of the sail and then the ends of the sail to make sure it says. The distance and time was 7.9m and 11 seconds. The calculated speed is 86.9 meters. The forces that were acting on the wind racer were Air resistance, Gravity, Thrust, and Support. The forces were unbalanced. During the wind racer race everyone had completely different results when it came to the distance. The reason as to why everyone’s distance and time was different was because no group had made the exact same wind racer as another group, they were all different. The net force means the sum of all of the forces acting on an object. Here is a list on the forces that had the most strength to the least amount of strength on the wind racer.  Air resistance, Thrust, Support, and then Gravity. Those forces had an effect on my groups wind racer because with Air resistance the wind was pushing against the sail to make it move. Thrust was used to make the wind racer go forward. Support helped make sure the wind racer didn’t fall over. Lastly Gravity, If there was no gravity the wind racer wouldn’t be on the ground.  My groups wind racer was successful because it didn’t fall, break or get ruined. We also got the furthest distance in the class. If I could improve our wind racer I’d put tape at the bottom so the wind racer was more sturdier. I’d also put the skewers more tightened together.

 

 

 

 

 

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