The Rube Goldberg Machine Your Objective: To explore new physics concepts and to demonstrate concepts we have learned

in physics over the course of the year through the design and application of a Rube Goldberg Machine. Biography: Ruben Lucius Goldberg was a cartoonist whose work spanned from the 1910s to the 1970s. From the age of 11, Goldberg wanted to be a cartoonist but his father pressured him to go to college to become an engineer. As a college student, he started drawing cartoons for first the school paper and then for newspapers around San Francisco. Eventually, the merging of his engineering education and cartooning skills led him to become a celebrated cartoonists. The national cartoonists association even named their yearly award after him. Definition: Rube Goldberg 1. US cartoonist of comically involved contrivances; 2. designating any very complicated invention, machine, scheme, etc. laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation. Due dates: Materials must be in class on the 28th, Machines must be ready to go when you walk into class on Friday, March 25th. YouTube videos are due on Monday, April 4th. In the space below draw or write down your groups original ideas for how to design the machine. What simple task will it accomplish? What materials will you need to bring on Monday the 28th?

Expectation Machine: Contains an incline plane, screw, wedge, pulley, lever and wheel and axle Machine: Contains 12 physics concepts(Free fall, roller coasters, rockets, conservation of energy or momentum, work, waves, Newtons 1st or 3rd law, circuits, circular motion, projectile motion, magnets, pendulums, acceleration down a ramp, power, friction, air resistance, other) Machine: Completes the final task successfully Machine: Well designed, movable, reproducible- ALL PARTS MUST BE CONNECTED Machine: Creative and aesthetically pleasing Visual Aid: Diagrams the entire machine Visual Aid: Identifies the 6 simple machines Visual Aid: Identifies the 12 physics concepts Visual Aid: Creative and aesthetically pleasing Video: Shows a close up of all 6 simple machines Video: Shows all 12 physics concepts Video: Narrates (in a voice over or in text) what is happening in the video with the simple machines and physics concepts. Video: Creative and aesthetically pleasing, less than 5 minutes long, entertaining and educational

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Reference List: References are listed and formatted correctly in APA style Participation: Did you bring your materials on time? Did you work every day in class? Where you a productive member of your group? Total Points: 150

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