Rube Goldberg Assignment

Name of machine: Door Chain Reaction

Objective: Pushing a door

Types of Energy:

Sound energy

Potential energy

Kinetic energy

Gravitational energy

Magnetic energy

Steps:

A. Knock over wooden blocks.

B. Wooden blocks knock ball into pulley.

C. The pulley hits more wooden blocks.

D. The wooden blocks knocks into a ball

E. The ball falls down into the lever.

F. The lever launches a golf ball into an incline plane.

H. The books collapse into two paths,

I. One path, wooden blocks fall onto each other to hit a metal object into a magnet.

J. The other path, books collides until it hits the door to shut it.

 

Energy transfer:

  1. Potential energy to kinetic energy
  2. Kinetic energy to sound energy
  3. Gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy
  4. Kinetic to magnetic energy