Lab report on the effects of rolling a cd car down an incline.

Purpose: The purpose of this lab to be able to derive an equation that could be applied to a real life situation. Do this by first building a car using a box, four CDs as wheels, and dowels as axles. Then obtain a ramp and measure a length on it to use as a hypotenuse on a right triangle. Then select a height and measure it to calculate the angle of the ramp. Then, using …

…times throughout the trials. Some of the damages that took place were that the axles tore into the box, and if the car crashes enough times the wheels sometimes cracked. The car crashing also caused the wheels of it to be more out of alignment. A way to fix this is to reinforce every aspect of the car. Another way would be to have to car gently roll into something soft such as a sweatshirt.