1st place Mousetrap Car Ideas

When we did this in highschool our speed/acceleration contest was only over a meter, so I just used the mouse trap to catapult my car over the finish line.

I wish Mark was my physics teacher...

Can you imagine how lucky some future kid is gonna be to be able to call Mark Rober their physics teacher??

no one is talking about how mark was outside IN THE RAIN for a bit just so he can explain the topic he was on. I want him to be my teacher.

The internet needs more people like Mark Rober. Youtube should give incentives for NASA employees to become creators.

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Worker in NASA go to school to totally annihilate kids in mousetrap car race

in my 8th grade science class we are actually doing something where you can either build a lander or a rover, no electricity and stuff like that. I had the egg drop thing as an idea for a lander and this for a rover and I'm super excited to test both out and see which one is better.

It’s almost 2022 and I’m still enjoying this video, I mean the way Mark explains engineering is so amazing.

When mr. Rober is a physics teacher to almost 10 million people and doesn't realize it.

I learned more in the first 5 minutes than a whole semester in high school

I never did this as a kid but being an auto mechanic now I got a huge kick out of this video! Made me think about the mathematics of transmissions and differential final drive ratios. Super fun keep up the great work!

I think I just found a lifetime hobby. Every science teacher I’ve ever had said I possess an extremely intuitive understanding of physics and this seems to be a perfect application of that. Just seeing this video makes my mind go crazy thinking of all the ways I could attempt to improve the design. I wonder if you could devise an equation that could predictably determine what the optimal ratio of mechanical advantage for a given car would be, accounting for factors like weight, wheel diameter, coefficient of friction on the wheels, axels, and every other moving part where friction is present. Obviously there’s a perfectly optimal car that could be made if you could fully understand all these factors and that’s what is most alluring to me.

Press F to pay respects to icecream

- Dad, why is my sister called Rose?
- Because your mother loves flowers.
- Oh ok, thanks dad..
- No problem, Mechanical Advantage.

this has sat in my brain for 3 years and has silently been supporting me through my physics classes. Thank you.

The way he explained physics is so much better then the 9 years of science class I've taken

The way Mark explains physics is not only easier to understand than school ever taught me but he makes it so much more interesting

i was expecting a mouse trap that catches a mouse and drives away with it

I first did this project in 1987 during my student teaching in Industrial arts. We used two mouse traps which allowed options on how to best utilize them. I continued this project for the next 12 years as an engineering project in Drafting class. Best run was 437 feet in a 12 foot wide hallway so straight tracking was important. The best wheels were 33rpm vinyl record albums. I didn't invent this project and don't know it's origins.