Paper Car Crash!
As a culminating activity option, design, build, and crash an egg-carrying paper car to determine the most crashworthy design.
Key Questions
- Is it possible to build a car frame and body from paper and glue that is strong enough to protect a raw egg during a head-on collision?
- What engineering and design features determine a vehicle's crashworthiness?
Student Directions
- View the Introduction video.
- Download and print the Student Activity Sheet.
- Do the activity and begin answering the analysis questions.
- View the Conclusion video and finish answering the analysis questions.
- View the video segment of "When Physics Meets Biology" to help review the science concept(s).
Crashworthiness: how well a vehicle protects its occupants in a crash. A crashworthy vehicle design reduces the risk of death and injury
Impulse (J): the product of a force and the time interval during which the force acts, F∆t
Momentum (p): the product of the mass and velocity of an object, p = m × v
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As a culminating activity option, design, build, and crash an egg-carrying paper car to determine the most crashworthy design.
Key Questions
- Is it possible to build a car frame and body from paper and glue that is strong enough to protect a raw egg during a head-on collision?
- What engineering and design features determine a vehicle's crashworthiness?
Students
Student Directions
- View the Introduction video.
- Download and print the Student Activity Sheet.
- Do the activity and begin answering the analysis questions.
- View the Conclusion video and finish answering the analysis questions.
- View the video segment of "When Physics Meets Biology" to help review the science concept(s).
Vocabulary
Crashworthiness: how well a vehicle protects its occupants in a crash. A crashworthy vehicle design reduces the risk of death and injury
Impulse (J): the product of a force and the time interval during which the force acts, F∆t
Momentum (p): the product of the mass and velocity of an object, p = m × v
Teachers
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