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This Rube Goldberg machine provides a complex way to put a penny in a piggy bank using 10 steps that transfer different forms of energy. The steps include a wheel hitting marbles to fall down a screw and hit a Jenga block releasing a ball, which hits a book dropping a weight on a lever pushing a marble down a screw to hit a golf ball, which then hits a stick to pull a penny up a ramp and into the piggy bank. Each step demonstrates physics concepts like kinetic energy, potential energy, work, force, and acceleration.

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Rube Goldberg Machine Website

This Rube Goldberg machine provides a complex way to put a penny in a piggy bank using 10 steps that transfer different forms of energy. The steps include a wheel hitting marbles to fall down a screw and hit a Jenga block releasing a ball, which hits a book dropping a weight on a lever pushing a marble down a screw to hit a golf ball, which then hits a stick to pull a penny up a ramp and into the piggy bank. Each step demonstrates physics concepts like kinetic energy, potential energy, work, force, and acceleration.

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Rube Goldberg

Machine: The most

complex way to put a penny in


a piggy bank
CREATED BY: GABBY BITTON, NICK BERGO, BRYAN BLAIR, EMILIE BAXTER
WITH GREAT THANKS TO MR. WILLIAMS!!!

1.Wheel and axle hit cup of marbles


Kinetic Energy to Kinetic Energy:
Continuation of motion transferring energy from
movement of objects
Example of wheel and axle

2. Marbles down screw


Find acceleration:

MA = distance of screw over distance of its


height

Ag over Ma will equal the marbles


acceleration ( Ag = acceleration due to
gravity)

3. Marbles hit jenga to release ball


Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy:
High position = pick up speed
and momentum
Motion = energy to knock over
book

4. Ball hits book to fall with lightweight


Mechanical Advantage:
Equals output force over input force
How hard or easy a machine makes an
action
Pulley circumference to lighten weight on
each side

5. Heavy weight on other side drop on lever


Kinetic Energy to Potential Energy:
Force of weight on lever push
stuck up high in position
Energy transfers to move up
Energy from previous motion
1st class lever- effort to fulcrum to
load

6. Lever goes up to push marble down screw


Potential Energy:
PE = 1/2 x mass x acceleration
due to gravity x height
Energy gained from position
Lever gives force to move stick up
- Gives momentum to go faster

7. Marble hits golf ball


Kinetic Energy:
KE = x mass x velocity squared
Chain reaction
Kinetic to kinetic:
- energy transferred object to object
- allow to move
- considered as impulse and momentum

8. Golf ball hits yellow stick


Work and Force:
W = force x distance
F = mass x acceleration
Picks up speed from inclined plane
force of motion from potential energy
- power (P=W/T)

9. Pulley Wall-up

Mechanical Advantage:
MA = input distance over output distance
For pulley, MA=# of ropes that are not downward pull rope

10. Penny goes into piggy bank


Acceleration:
A = change in velocity over change in time
Freefall acceleration = 9.8 meters per second
squared
Incline planed allows less time and more speed
- increase acceleration
- why ramps for snowboarders

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