Research and Planning For over 4 periods of science, our class is tasked with creating a sail for our wind cart or wind racer for the test on Friday. In my group, we decided to do a trapezium shape for our sail, But we also went and thought about adding three possible layers of triangle-ish shaped sails to see if it has effects. We decided to tape sticks to the paper to see if it does anything.
This may be similar to what we plan on making [Inspiration]
Equipment/Resources
-sticks
-Papers
-Scissors
Testing and Experiments
After doing a few tests about how far our wind-racer can go. We also decided to add some designs to make our own wind-racer for, I guess much more aesthetic and creative elements on it [It was a shark on a newspaper]. On the first run, Our wind-racer managed to be only a few meters apart from the starting line. Seeing as we were not really sufficed with our results we decided to add more components to our wind-racer. We added another layer of newspaper to see if it will enhance our creation.
Final test and Evaluation
By adding a new layer of newspaper to our sails. It somehow covered more distance than our first trial with our previous one sail. If allowed to do so again, we would have added a much thicker sail or component such as cardboard to make it faster. and we may also add one more layer to see if it will also make a difference. Hopefully, it does go far as currently, we are just judging based on our hypothesis of what could possibly be.
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