Mousetrap Car

Mona Abu-Zahra, Rasha Barham, and Layana Salah

Pioneers Baccalaureate School-Nablus, Palestine
February 3-March 17, 2016
ABSTRACT
This paper is going to talk about how to build a mousetrap car.
Its going to talk about pollution, and types of cars in Palestine.
Pollution happens because of cars, factories, and it makes the air
mush dirtier than it was. The human breaths this air, which is a big
threat on theyre life.
The elevation of cars in Palestine went from small and slow to
unique and fast. Palestine started to get cars in the end of 1930s,
and those cars were so slow, but they were considered as avantgarde.
INTRODUCTION
Cars are one of the easiest and most available vehicles for
transportation. The first car was designed year 1807 by a Swiss man
called Franois Isaac de Rivaz.1 Karl Benz powered the first car by
gasoline and petrol, year 1886. The car was called, Benz PatentMotorwagen.2

METHODS
Pictures

Materials
1) Mousetrap
2) Glue
3) Duck tape
4) 4 mini CDs
5) 8 water bottle cabs
6) Wood sticks
7) Balloons
8) 2 eyehooks
9) Paint
10) Paint brushes
Procedure:
1. Paint the mousetrap
2. Wait until dry
3. Use a scissor to make 2 holes on the front short side of the
4.
5.
6.
7.

mousetrap
Put the eye-hooks in the holes
Glue them in to make them secure
Bring the CDs and put them inside the balloons
Bring the cabs and attach every two on each side of a CD
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8. Bring a stick and put it through every two CDs

9. Attach the first stick to the eyehooks
10.
Attach the other stick to the back of the mousetrap so it
looks like a car
RESULTS
The car turned out good enough to move for at least 10 seconds.
Here are some graphs that shows different states of the car.

2 sec

4 sec

6 sec

8 sec

10 sec

1) The car is moving at a constant speed: In two seconds, the car

moved 15 centimeters. In 4 seconds, the car moved 25
centimeters, and on.
y 2 y 1

The slope of the graph is : x 2x 1 =

The speed is:

distance
=
time

2515
42 =

15
2 = 7.5cm/s

10
2 =5

2 sec

4 sec

6 sec

8 sec

10 sec

2) The cars speed is decreasing. The first 2 seconds, it was

moving at 30 cm, but then it started to decrease and go lower.
The slope of the graph is:

y 2 y 1
x 2x 1 =

3025
24 =

5
2 = -2.5

distance
=
time

The speed of the car is:

30
2 =15

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
2 sec

4 sec

6 sec

8 sec

10 sec

3) The car is no longer moving, and the slope is zero, but the car
stopped at the measure of 13 cm.
The slope of the graph is:

y 2 y 1
x 2x 1 =

1313
42 =

0
2 =0

The speed of the car is 0 because the slope is zero, and the car
is not actually moving.
DISCUSSION
Palestine
Layana

In the 1930s, cars started to arrive and be a thing ion

Palestine. Cars began with being slow, not looking nice, but at that
time they were considered unique and fancy. The elevation of cars
goes like this:
1. The 10HP: It was passed by Frances vehicle department on
20thof November, 1918.
2. B2: The Type A was replaced by the B2 car, and it has a vehicle
with a more powerful engine and a better cooling system.
3. C Series
4. Rosalie
5. Traction Avant
6. 2CV and Derived Vehicles
7. DS
8. AMI
9. SM
10.
GS
11.
CX
12.
LN
13.
VISA
And here come the 1980s cars and 1990s. Types of cars that are
currently in Palestine are Mitsubishi, Mercedes, Lexus, Kia, Jaguar,
Porsche, Toyota, Audi, Hyundai, Beogeut, Citroen, and more.

Social Justice
Rasha Barham
Pollution is the most concerned aspect of problems that
vehicles face. Cars make one third of the U.S pollution. When
produced from cars, it goes out into the air that we, humans
breathe, going straight into our lungs and causing damage. 4Poor air
quality increases the chances of asthma, bronchitis, or more serious
terms like cancer. More than 30000 deaths appear because of this
cause. Carbon dioxide also leads to Global Warning that affects
animals and us. It reaches the animals in a different form too. It
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could enter in water and soil, which changes the food chain and
harms the animals.5 Many have tried to solve these problems like
reducing the amount of car usage, and substituting another element
other than fossil fuels to move cars like technology.

The Three Laws of Motion

Mona, Rasha, and Layana
The first law of motion is that an object that isnt moving; at rest,
tends to stay at rest, except when an unbalanced force acts on it.
The first law of motion also includes that when an object is at motion
is doesnt stop unless an unbalanced force acts on it.
The second law of motion says, that force equals mass
multiplied by acceleration (Force= mass x acceleration.) Mass is the
amount of matter in a certain space, and matter is anything has
mass and takes up space. Acceleration is the rate of how fast
something is going. Weight is a type of force that we get from we
get from gravity. Weight equals mass multiplied by gravity. Gravity
equals 10M/S.S which means that the whole equation for finding
weight is, Mass x 10/s2 (gravity) = weight.
The third law of motion says that for every action there is an
opposite reaction.

For example when you bounce a ball, you put

force on the ball which is the reason why it bounces. The opposite
reaction is when it bounces back at the opposite way with the same
amount of force applied originally.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our group would like to thank our science teacher, Ms. Meha,
Miss. Sara Yozzo for giving us this amazing idea, and Miss. Katie for
providing us with materials from art class. We would also like to

thank our classmates along with our school which provided us with
this lovely building which we are working in.
LITERATURE CITED

1http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/151661/
2http://www.mercedesbenz.com.au/content/australia/mpc/mpc_australia__website/en/home_mpc/passengercars
/home/passenger_cars_world/heritage/125years/1886.html
3http://www.citroen.ps/citroen-universe/history/passenger-cars/
4http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/green-guide/buyingguides/car/environmental-impact/

5http://homeguides.sfgate.com/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-79358.html
6http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/vehicles-air-pollution-and-human-health#.VtcmWJx96hc