The Rube Goldberg Unit is an explortation in to force, work, simple machines and 1-dimensional motion. Students will be working with lab equipment to learn how simple machines can reduce the amount of effort required to do a task, and how the various types of simple machines work. The culminating project for the unit is the construction of a Rube Goldberg device.
Rube Goldberg Night Oct 5, 6pm - 7:30 pm
Rube Goldberg Student Websites will be here!!\
A few Rube examples you can watch for ideas.
Top 10 Rube Goldberg machines featured on film.
If you find any other cool machines, please let me know and I'll add them to the list. You can also do a youtube search for Rube Goldberg and you'll find quite a few videos. Or search 'Japanese Rube Goldberg' for a number of videos.
3-view drawings. Introduction and practice of 3-view drawings. Go here for assignment information and downloads. Drawings are due Friday, August 26.
Sketching Gadgets Complete the assignment as a table group, drawing one of the available gadgets. Your homework assignment is to draw two additional gadgets, however, if you draw two in class, you only have to complete one at home.
The Rube Goldberg Project entry document
Newton's Laws of motion. A few notes on Newton. Project time.
Force and work practice problems due Monday. Take a look at them tonight, they'll be a good review for your quiz Friday. Come to class with questions.
Vectors.
Building a website You can download Seamonkey (which includes Composer) here. It's a free download.
Simple Machines Web tutorial and rubric- students will be creating web pages that discuss the physics of simple machines. The text of the assignment.
Project day
Finish up simple machines and mechanical advantage. Project time.
Project time.
Project time
Assorted Practice Problems- The entire problem set is not due as one packet, rather the pages are due separately.
Pages are due one page per day, starting on Monday, Sept. 26.
The Web Tutorial handout
Simple Machines Web Tutorial Rubric
The last set of review problems. Look over these, see if there are any you don't understand. If you think you can do them all, great. If there are some you don't understand, bring those in and we'll go over them next week. I'm leaving it up to you to decide if you need extra help and how much. Now, that being said, we'll still be reviewing next Thursday.
