These support the chassis and allow the car to roll forward
What are the wheels?
100
This transmission system includes a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of rotating axles.
What is gear drive transmission?
100
These two objects on the solar car must be removable.
What are the payload and solar panel?
100
This is the term for a group problem-solving technique that involves the spontaneous contribution of ideas
What is brainstorming
100
This is the gear with applied force (e.g. battery-powered motor).
What is the driver?
200
This is a device, usually made from silicon, which converts some of the energy from light or solar rays into electrical energy.
What is the solar panel?
200
This transmission system changes speed and turning force of rotating axles by transferring force by the friction of the belts rather than direct contact with the teeth of gears.
What is belt drive transmission?
200
At the solar sprint the car was attached to this to ensure it ran along a straight path on the track.
What is the guide wire?
200
This is a tentative proposal made to explain certain observations or facts.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This is the gear that is attached to the axle or wheel, the gear that is doing useful work.
What is the driven?
300
This is the cargo in the car, that the vehicle carries (an aluminum can in this case).
What is the payload?
300
This object was used as the belt in the solar cars apprenticeship.
What is a rubber band?
300
These are the two parts that were required to be used in the building of your cars.
What are the solar panel and motors?
300
This is the step in the design process after you build your car.
What is "test"?
300
This is the formula for what term related to gears:
(number of teeth in driven)/(number of teeth in driver)
What is the gear ratio?
400
This is the structural frame or body of the car; it holds all of its main parts together.
What is the chassis?
400
A transmission system connects the motor shaft to the ____________ in order to move the car.
What is the wheel or axle?
400
You used this object to attach the guide wire to your car.
What is a paper clip?
400
This is the first step in the engineering design process.
What is "define goals and objectives"?
400
This gear ratio results in faster cars:
40:10 OR 10:40
What is 40:10?
500
This is a thin rod connecting the wheels.
What is the axle?
500
Belt systems have a major different from gear systems in the sense that they use friction from belts rather than direct contact with ___________
What is "gears"?
500
The vehicle may not be larger than 12 inches wide, by 24 inches long, by _____ inches high.
What is 12?
500
This is the step after you compare concepts and select a design.
What is "build"?
500
When the driver is rotating to the right, the driven is rotated in this direction....