Law #1 – Law of inertia

• The law of inertia is about friction and when an object wants to stay at rest it stays at rest. For Example: when you have a cup of water on top of a piece of paper the cup is at rest so when you pull the paper out the paper will come out from under the cup and the cup will stay at rest!

  • I learned about force and how friction really helps you because friction and inertia really help you otherwise you would be flying all over the place so inertia, force and friction are really helpful in life!

  • If you were to roll a bowling ball in a hallway the force of friction or someone would stop it.

Law #2 – F=ma (Force = Mass x Acceleration)

• If theres no force then nobody would be moving and there would be a big mess everywhere!

  • I learned about force and mass and how that is also very important in life too we did a lot about force with our experiment.

  • The law of F=ma is really important that is why Newton made it!

Law #3 – Action – Reaction

• If something is in action then eventually it will be in reaction

  • I learned about Action – Reaction and for our experiment we took a large string and tied it across the room and hooked up a straw to it then we blew up a balloon and taped it to the straw and the straw and the balloon went across the string it was awesome!

WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE EXPERIMENT?

• That it matters how many coils there are around the nail.

• The more coils the more paper clips there is our group did 57 coils and got 22 paper clips.

• I thought it was the most paper clips you could get but a different group got 36! I think our group did pretty good and I didn’t know that the coils mattered so I learned something new!

HOW DOES WHAT YOU LEARNED APPLY TO YOUR PINBALL MACHINE?

If I could add a magnet to my pinball machine then I would use it to build the launcher (Put it under the launcher so the ball would stay down.)

WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE EXPERIMENT?

I learned that it is not that hard after you try and get the hang of it.

and I also learned that sometimes it can be hard but if you’re in a group then it can be easier you just need to work things out.

And I also learned that experiment are really fun and I didn’t know that before, so I think it will be really fun to make a pinball machine!

HOW CAN YOU APPLY WHAT YOU LEARNED TO YOUR PINBALL MACHINE?

You can go in your group and they can help you find ideas because maybe it would be a lot easier with your group, or you could tell your group to make sure your group likes your ideas too and if they agree then you can use it but if they don’t like the idea then you can find a different idea.