Push Car Design
For our final math project our wonderful teacher, Kevin Stovall, gave us the option to do whatever type of project we wanted as long as it related to math. After hearing this, Will, Liam, and I knew that we really wanted to do something together. Will and Liam are very interested in cars, so we decided to make a car without an engine. The best way to do this is to use a push powered car, so we started doing research online to find working blueprints. After finding working blueprints, we gathered materials and finalized our ideas. We started with the idea of a car, and eventually ended thinking of a soapbox derby type car.
After we had our ideas, we presented our project to the other groups we received some good critique. After hearing out our idea, they suggested that we incorporate a cardboard body onto our car when we finish. We played with the idea, and then we decided that we would implement that only when we finished the car and if we had enough time. Mr. Stovall let us know very early into the project that he wouldn´t be able to provide supplies for us. That made the the last three weeks hard because we didn´t know if we would have enough time to complete our ideas. We only received the needed materials 4 days before the project was due, so we have had very limited time to finish the car. We worked very hard in this project, but finishing in time was never really possible given our time and materials.
Besides the actual production of the car, we have worked very hard to complete the Push Car Design Document and even the extra credit DP update. This also went along with math writing and math calculations about our car. This is where we proved that we worked hard and finished our work because we couldn´t prove it with the production of the car. Overall, This project was very fun with a ton of freedom and we all learned a lot of math and had a great time!
Surface Area of the wheels:
To find the area of a wheel you need to take the radius, square it, then multiply it by pi.
Then you multiply that by two. The formula is A=πr2
To find the circumference, you need to take the radius, multiply it by two, and then multiply it by pi. Then you take the circumference and multiply it by the width of the whee l.Formula: C=2πr
Finally, you add the area of both circles and the previous answer to get the final answer.