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The Miracle
A Project by
Gerrit Hale&
Dennis Mcghee
The Device
Bottle with dry ice and hot
water
Battery rests
on plat-form and
falls on wood
support
Hammer falls and smashes balloon
Shoe Falls
Buzzer goes off in alarming victory
Balloon pops
Stored Energy
• There is potential gravitational energy at the three points with the arrows
Summary of Construction Issues
• Our initial plan was to have a ball launch to knock over the wall with the nail but we couldn’t get the ball to launch correctly.
• The nail would not pop the balloon.• We couldn’t get the balloon to inflate and
start the battery to roll.
Conclusions
• This project is a great example an “alarming” number of steps just to press a button.
• It also showed the many ways energy can be stored and then released to perform a task.
• In the end we laughed, we cried, and learned the difference between cork board and plywood.