User:Ali.bhatti223/ENES-100/project 2

Week1 Narrative
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''I have been organizing my thoughts on the rube goldberg project. I organized my thoughts on the matter by looking into the sections of the project that I was assigned and overall looking into how they would fit into the scheme of things. I worked on understanding two parts these parts would be part 5 of the project and another which I will call part A. Part 5 is about some object being projected onto a lever which will then lift up with enough force to then close a pair of scissors, which will then cut a string. --Ali.bhatti223 (discuss • contribs) 21:58, 26 March 2013 (UTC) ''

My Second Task
''part a the more interesting of the two in my opinion actually is not set in stone, which makes it more interesting to me. part a is generally about transporting an object that I will call 'x' to a destination 'y', which a cage will then fall on to it. The variation arises when upon thinking of the means in which to transport this object 'x' and all of the things that may interact with it. two scenarios were thought of so far; I will call them scenario 1 and 2. In scenario one there is a cart transporting 'x' to an unknown destination and then it is intercepted in an abrupt manner, such that the deceleration of the cart  is so great that the frictional force between x and the cart is to low to keep them together and 'x' will be projected to 'y'. scenario 2 is similar except that instead of x being a projectile in the air is rolls down a ramp. this is all that was thought of.''

My Third task
''I set out to work on the cart design, which then led to me looking for tracks for the cart to ride on. My thoughts for the track went along the path of first wood and wires. The track idea then moved onto the idea of incorporating 3d printers for printing a custom track for the cart; I thought that it would allow for a lot of customization and precision. ''

My Fourth task
''This task of mine was to understand what variables in our project would hold it back from precision to make the process replicable. Since our project involves motion of different sorts, I thought that it would be good for us to know the variables associated with motion. mass is easy to find, surface area would also not really come into play very much since nothing would be moving very fast. the things that I thought would come into play the most that were the hardest to obtain. These things would be the center of mass and moments of inertia. there is a way to find the centers of masses of objects with that are very flat but our objects I would think would be too close to three dimensional to assume to be 2 dimensional, but the teacher suggested that it might be possible to use the 2D technique, because the object is basically moving in a 2d plane for some of the parts of our project or something along the lines of that, but I am not too sure of how these things work. ''

Week4 Narrative
''I thought that our project didn't have a very precise easy to visualize model, so I thought that it might be a good idea for me to try to model the project. I looked into different tool to do the previous mentioned job, but the one that I settled upon was sketchup. I began embarking on the path of trying to understand how to use sketchup, which was pretty interesting to say the least, since I never used something like it. I learned to use various tool from watching a video on some of the basic features in sketchup. The features that I learned to use were the rectangle tool, the circle tool, and the push and pull tool, in addition to tools for navigation as well. '