Sunday, June 17, 2007

Kristy's Marvelous Machine

This is my post for Machine Mania. So far we are going to do a race and we're designing a car only for the race we're doing. I'm doing the uphill, which will include a hill climb about 5 inches high, and I will need a lot of power. I'm doing this because there would be less people, so it might be easier to win, but also I think it will be cooler to have something that goes up and down, instead of just running a flat track. It would be so much fun. But the hard part is to make enough power to make the car run uphill. It would be easier to make a car run a flat distance, but it would be harder to win. It would be harder to make a car with enough power to lift itself up about 5 inches with just about 1 inch to start off. I'm planning to have 2 motors in it, but if one burns out at the slope up, it wouldn't work.
Flat winner: Curtice ,Uphill winner: Curtice ,SUV winner: Kendrick
I learned that if something works well just one time, it doesn't mean that it will work well forever. I learned this because someone's machine won the pre-test, but the machine didn't win in the final test.
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Electronics is the study of the flow of charge through various materials and devices such as, semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures, and vacuum tubes. All applications of electronics involve the transmission of either information or power. Although considered to be a theoretical branch of physics, the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems is an essential technique in the fields of electronics engineering and computer engineering.

The study of new semiconductor devices and surrounding technology is sometimes considered a branch of physics. This article focuses on engineering aspects of electronics. Other important topics include electronic waste and occupational health impacts of semiconductor manufacturing.

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