Week 15 reflection (remake)

This week i believe was the week before break. This was the week were we accomplished the mouse trap cars. For my groups car, i decided to use a small peice of wood, two axles (locked), and decided for light weight-more traction purposes, i would use the back of paper cups as tires. I covered the tires with rubber bands for added traction. We used a high tech traction control system devolped by Jeep, which gave 25% equal power to all 4 wheels, as well as a new devolped form of a locking differential to keep all 4 tires from spinning and losing traction as well as a 4:1 transfer case ratio for added crawl momentum. Ok, maybe we didnt do all that, but we did put alot of thought into traction. The car itself was well devolped, but it didnt have enough power. No tires slip (thanks to the high tech traction control) but didnt gain too much speed. A crucial part to this experiment as well as to any experiment is the data that goes along with. This is where things got a little confusing. We used the graphing accelerameter to conduct experiments of the metal car going down the ramp. We plotted all the data and it was straight forward, but it was difficult for me atleast to find how much acceleration the car was pickong up, and the formula to find it. Eventually i did figure it out, but for the time being i was still confused. Thats why i think i did so Poorly on the assesment. Overall, a productive week. I did miss foday so i did not see the performancr of our car, but hopefully it was good.