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    This document outlines the 14 step process of a Rube Goldberg machine. The machine uses the principles of gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, elastic potential energy, levers, and inclined planes. A lead weight starts the process by rolling down a slide and setting off a chain reaction that results in a tea bag being lowered into a cup of hot water through the use of these physics principles and simple machines.

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    This document outlines the 14 step process of a Rube Goldberg machine. The machine uses the principles of gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, elastic potential energy, levers, and inclined planes. A lead weight starts the process by rolling down a slide and setting off a chain reaction that results in a tea bag being lowered into a cup of hot water through the use of these physics principles and simple machines.

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    Step1:Personpushesleadweightintocorkscrewshapedslide.

    Step2:Leadweightrollsdowntheslide.
    1. GravitationalPotentialEnergy/Efficiency
    a. mhg= 0.00251kg * 0.6m * 9.8 = P otentialEnergy = 0.014759
    b.

    (1/2) * 0.00251 * 3.2 = K ineticEnergy = 0.012851

    c. (0.012851/0.014759) * 100 = Efficiency = 87.0748%


    Step3:Leadweight(propelledbyslopeoftheslide)hitsthefirstdomino,andthefallofthefirstdomino
    causestheresttofall.
    Step5:Lastdominohitsthemousetrapanditgoesoff.
    2. ElasticPotentialEnergy/Efficiency
    a. P E = mgh = 7.5 * 9.8 * .07 = 5.145
    b. K E = 12mv2 = (.5 * 7.5 * .625)2 = 5.49316j
    c. efficiency = KE
    PE 100 = (5.49316/5.145) * 100 = 106%efficiency
    Step7:Mousetraphitsitslever,launchingthemarble.
    3. MechanicalAdvantageLevers
    a. inputdistance = 0.045
    b. outputdistance = 0.03
    c. .045/0.03 = 1.5
    Step8:Marblehitsbackboardandfallsintofunnel.
    Step9:Marblefallsthroughfunnel.
    Step10:Marblegoesdowntheslideattachedtothebottomofthefunnel.
    Step11:Momentumfromslideandfunnel(causedbygravity)providestheforceneededto
    4. MechanicalAdvantageInclinedplane
    a. M A = dv/dr = .04/.08 = .5
    b. 0.00519 * 0.5 = 0.002595kg = 0.0254482568243208newtons
    Step12:Marblerollsoverleverandleverfallsontomousetrap,settingitoff.
    Step14:Stringtrappedundermousetrapcomeslooseandweightfromtheoppositesideofthepulley
    pullsitdownintothecupofhotwaterwiththeteabagtiedtothestring.

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