Stapling Papers There were many steps that were included in the B.L.A.S.H. Rube Goldberg project. Our group members were Lucas Simmons, Amber Owens, Sam Eason, and Haley Phillips. We had to fulfill the task of stapling papers together. Our project consisted of 12 steps and had 6 different types of steps. The different types of steps were rolling, sliding, falling, flowing, springing, and pulling. All of these steps worked together, like a chain reaction, to complete our assigned task. Our group had to select 8 items that we picked from the stage. These were two golf balls, short pvc ramp, long pvc ramp, pvc tube, 8 dominoes, screw, and toothpaste. We had to bring in many different items that included: slinky, nails, glue, tape, plywood, hook, string, solo cups, water, cardboard, pool ball, ping pong ball, toy car, two by four wood, white trim, hard cup, two science books, stapler, two pieces of paper, water bottle funnel, and pvc elbow. These all served a certain purpose in our Rube Goldberg Project. The first …show more content…
The toy car was resting on the pvc ramp on the nail head into the pvc ramp. The toothpaste was resting on cardboard and slid down the white trim, caused by gravity, and had a force on the toy car causing momentum to be transferred to toy car causing the car to roll down pvc ramp giving us our third type of step, rolling. This caused the car to carry on the next step in our project. Our fourth step involved the toy car contacting a golf ball. Once the car began in motion, its momentum carried the car down the pvc ramp and had a force on the golf ball. This caused the ball to roll down the piece of wood that had cardboard edges to prevent the ball from falling off. This step was a rolling type of step, but we have already used this one so it doesn’t count as a different step. The ball carried down the wooden pegs to keep our project in