Team Members
Aaron May
Andrew Burks
Chris Whitaker
Jason Hobbs
Device and Purpose
• Series of potential and kinetic energy
transformations that leads to releasing elastic
potential energy in mouse trap.
• Ball released from initial height jumps across a gap
slides down ramp and moves a lever arm.
• Lever arm sets ball 2 into motion ball 2 slides down
ramp and falls to final piece of track.
• Ball 2 falls through hole in final piece of track.
• Final potential energy of ball 2 triggers a mouse trap
which pulls trigger on the paint ball gun.
Design Construction Issues
• Design is very simple.
• Construction was very easy.
• Clear tube is used to start the energy
transformations.
• Series of plastic ramps glued to peg board to guide
ball to mouse trap.
• Only major issue in design was getting the ball out
of the tube and landing smoothly on the first ramp.
Energy Conservations
Gravitational potential energy to kinetic
energy to a collision then back to kinetic
energy to another collision that releases the
elastic potential energy in the mouse trap to
fire the paintball gun.
Conclusions
• A series of energy transformations can be
used to pull trigger on a paint ball gun.
• But it is more effective to pull by hand.