Catapults/Trebuchets
T or F: Catapults and Trebuchets are the same.
What is F?
The six types of simple machines.
What are wedges, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, levers, and wheel and axles?
This career makes products having to do with electrical systems.
What is electrical?
What were cards and stickers/play-dough?
List some restraints.
What was the inability to use weapons, electricity, electronics, batteries, animals, nuts, balloons, or latex?
A spring is in this.
What is a catapult?
Screws accomplish this.
What holds things together?
This career makes structures for things such as rollercoasters.
What is civil?
These cards were used to build.
What were playing cards?
The most common number of tries taken for the machine to work.
What was 3?
When catapults and trebuchets came to light.
When was Medieval Times?
A combination of one or two inclined planes placed back to back.
What is a wedge?
This career made products having to do with health.
What is biomedical?
This made card towers successful.
What was sticking them to the table?
The max dimensions of the machine.
What were 4/4/4 feet?
The main parts of a catapult.
What is a frame, a fulcrum, a spring, an arm, a weight, and a bucket?
Wedges help with this.
What is splitting things apart easily?
The five engineering careers.
What were biomedical, chemical, civil, mechanical, and electrical?
This worked better for sticking cards together.
What was play dough?
EDP #4 talked about this.
What was creating and testing the machine?
The main parts of a trebuchet.
What is a frame, an arm, a pivot point, a counterweight, a sling, and a payload?
The first simple machine we learned about.
What were levers?
This type of engineer would design an escalator.
What is mechanical?
Mrs. Rohr used this to test the towers.
What was a hair dryer?
List some requirements.
What was the need to have at least 8 steps, at least four different simple machines, it had to have its own base, it had to be 4/4/4 feet, and it needed to be set-up in 5 minutes or less?