Reducing Six Simple Machines to Four

Reducing Six Simple Machines to Four

• Pulley
• Wheel and axle
• Lever
• Wedge
• Screw
• Inclined plane

How we can reduce to four:

There is no need for a wedge, since we already have an inclined plane which is basically the same thing, and we don't need a wheel and axle since the pulley includes that. The screw is just an inclined plane wrapped around a point.

Mike Desmond
Brainstorm

Project Ideas:
Use an Emotiv to control typing on a computer so it would be much faster
Use an Arduino TRE to detect snow on the roof of a car and turn on a heater to melt it.
Use an Arduino TRE to detect a breeze when someone walks in a room to turn on the lights
Use an Emotiv to open your lock when you are near
Use an Arduino to sense when there is an increase in sawdust and turn on the vacuum fan

Class Trip

Mike Desmond

 Class Field Trip

 

In our Applied Engineering class, Mr. Adkins is letting us choose where we would want to go on a field trip.  I think we should go to Six Flags.  Six Flags would be a great trip for this engineering class because it is a fun place and the whole park is based off of amazing engineering possibilities.  This should take place in the spring, like in april or may.  This is within a reasonable time to get there, which would maximize time at the site.

 

One possible idea is to contact the Six Flags engineers and have them give us a tour and teach us about how these rollercoasters are possible to build, and what makes them so fun.  Everyone would enjoy the rides, and no matter what ride you are going on, there was a ton of engineering put into it that makes them work, and this would teach us a lot about the real-world engineering jobs and what they have to do.

 

This link shows how Six Flags is a combination of Science, Physics, and Engineering:

http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2012/december/biomedical-engineering-roller-coaster-research