Mechanisms

My Own Incredible Machine Verification Sheet

 

Name: Erica Reid   Date: 3/16/07 

 

 

List the steps in your incredible machine below.

  1. The basketball  falls on see-saw
  2. See-saw bounces baseball
  3.  Baseball falls on trampoline
  4.  Trampoline bounces baseball
  5.  Baseball hit mouse motor
  6.  Mouse motor turns conveyor
  7.  Conveyor moves basket ball
  8.  Basketball  falls on see-saw
  9. See-saw bounces basketball
  10. Basketball  hits bird cage
  11. Bird cage bounces basketball
  12. Basketball  hits light switch
  13. Light switch turns on fan
  14. Fan blows on windmill
  15. Windmill turns gears
  16. Gears turn conveyor
  17. Conveyor moves bowling ball
  18. Bowling ball falls on see-saw
  19. See-saw pulls light chain
  20. Light  chain turns on Light

 

List all of the simple machines that are used in your incredible machine. 

(ie. Lever, Inclined Place, Screw, Wheel and Axle, Pulley, Wedge)

  1.  Each see-saw is a lever
  2. Each mouse motor is as wheel and axel
  3. Each conveyor is a wheel and axel
  4. Each gear is a  wheel
  5. Light bulb is a screw
  6. Light switch is a lever
  7. Windmill is a wheel and axel