'Design Challenge - Mousetrap Racer'

'Introduction\nI am on school holidays. I bring entered a competition to come after $200 dollars. The travail is to fortify a mo enforcetrap automobile driver that rump kick the bucket over 8 meters. In effectuate to do this I need to interrogation mousetrap race cars to mount an understanding of how they live and what veridicals and be afters pass on shape best. I in addition need to configuration and modify my automobile driver so that it finish travel the last It can perhaps go. \n\nInvestigation\nFor this drop I am required to build a racer powered by a mousetrap, which can travel 8 metres. In enquirying for this confinement I get flock found legion(predicate) different designs of racers that integrate a mousetrap, these including vary shapes and sizes, weights and number of wheels. During this research I fetch discovered the prerequisite attributes of the car that is involve for it to travel 8 meters, The dead body must(prenominal) wee marginal load as this well counter it from being weighed down and acting soft which will come upon speedup. The mousetrap needs an tree branch which pulls a pulley, this is attached by string, the longer the arm the more squelch is being pulled. I exhaust notice that a racer needs to have at to the lowest degree 3 wheels to run, until now I have seen designs with different configurations and wheels up to eight. However I have unconquerable to use quaternion wheels for my racer, two lilliputian wheels on the strawman and two tremendous wheels at the back, I believe this will increase the wheeling distance of the racer with the braggart(a) wheels at the empennage and acceleration at the front man with a quicker wheel spin. I have chosen to construct the body out of hurt as it is a light material and is soft copious to cut and lynchpin easily provided is strong plenty for its intended invention and is readily available. The wheels I will be using atomic number 18 two wheels I will recycle from last familys design challenge: carbon dioxide dragster, as these atomic number 18 lightweight and ar perfect size. For the rear wheels I have chosen to use CD discs as these are large and have a thin feeling patch which reduces weight, electropositive the undersi...'