Day 07 - Write up the EDP report

Today you are to work from the data you collected during our previous class, which should have been put into a Google Sheet your entire team can access. Today you will write up commentary comparing the two prototypes. Be sure to explain what changes you made from the first prototype to the second, and how it affected the performance of the prototype. Compare the weights of the two prototypes, their relative speeds, their total distance traveled, and the amount of deviation from the path each one made. Then make recommendations for onward development of this prototype. What should happen next? How do you think the changes would improve the next prototype's performance?

You will be presenting your results to me and to the rest of the class through a shared Google Sheet.

acceleration

the rate at which an object's speed changes

compression

squeezing an object to reduce the space it occupies

intuit

to know something without prior study

Newton's laws of motion

they remind us that objects need force to change direction or velocity, and that every force in the universe is opposed by its equal; also, F=ma, or force equals mass times acceleration

pneumatics

any technology using air pressure to do work