Im doing this for my physics final and I have to make a toy boat go 1 meter in 10 seconds with a mousetrap.
Help me! I barely understand whats going on in class.|||Take a wooden yardstick and glue the mousetrap in line with it at about the 24 inch mark on the yardstick. Open up the mousetrap fully and glue a stiff piece of light plastic about 7 inches by 10 inches square, to the wire frame "business end" ( I like that term the other guy used)
The idea is the yardstick is the boat and the mousetrap is underneath the boat. When you have the jaws wide open the sheet of plastic will be close to the end of the yardstick and when you release it, the mouse trap closes and does like a dog paddle by pushing the sheet of plastic under water and giving a big shove to the yardstick boat. By mounting the mousetrap toward the front, the boat should go straight and when the plastic sheet closes all the way the boat should easily coast a meter or more|||I don't know what type of mousetrap you have, but if your mousetrap have some stretching(something like sprin) part you can use that stretching power to push your boat forward. Instead of rubber band of this boat (http://howtomakeatoyboat.blogspot.com/20鈥?/a> fix your mousetrap sprin here and try.|||Tie a string to the business arm of the mousetrap, and wrap the other end of the string around the propeller axle to make it spin. Actually you should probably make a paddle-wheel. It'd be more efficient.
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