Hot Wheels With ROCKET ENGINES!

The purpose of this lab was to see how fast in MPH a hot wheels car could travel if we added a rocket engine on to it. We went through many obstacles throughout the lab such as the photogates not picking up the data or the car simply falling apart before all the data could be collected. Warning: doing this lab might be dangerous and must watch out for any flying rocket engines that fly off sometimes.

Step 1 Materials that you will need

- Hot wheel car
- 2x4 board, 6 meters long (smooth on top)
- electrical tape
- rocket engine (A, B, or C, doesnt matter)
- Car battery and ignitor wire to set off your rocket engine
- 5 Photo gates with vernier program (computer needed)
- 5 Stands(one to hold each photogate) and to adjust their height
- Metal L bracets( 2, one for each side)
- some nails and a drill
- Wire
- empty pen shell, cut into a smaller size than your hot wheel
- hot glue
- plastic zip ties

Comments

[Wasagi]

 That is SO COOL!!! Great job!