Rubber Band Car Wheels

Plus it s even more fun if you can make a car go without just pushing it or by adding an expensive motor.

Rubber band car wheels. There are lots of creative rubber band car ideas but you definitely need a rubber band and a way to wind it up. You ve given the rubber band potential stored energy. Make the second wheel the same way. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania.

Tape one end of a rubber band to the cardboard at the end opposite the axle. The more you wind the rubber band around the axle the more energy can go to your car s wheels and the faster and farther it will go. Even if the wheels do spin there might not be enough friction with the ground causing them to spin in. Elektronomia the other side ncs release https yout.

Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast. The rubber band can slip relative to the wooden axle preventing the wheels from spinning. Then get 4 cds and glue a wooden spool to one side of each cd and a button to the other side. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.

Wrap the unattached end of the rubber band over the catch. This rubber band powered car is an awesome engineering activity for your next stem project time. Turn the axle several times. To make a rubber band car start by inserting 2 dowels through a cardboard tube 1 at each end for the axles on your car.

Attach the rubber band. The wheel and axle should now rotate together. When the rubber band unwinds and the axle spins it transforms the potential stored energy into kinetic energy or motion energy. While you can certainly use a paper towel tube for your car i chose a sturdier tube that came from a box of aluminum foil.

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