The Secret of the Magic Mousetrap

Taima Haj, Shams Ismail

8th Grade Honors, Pioneers Baccalaureate School-Nablus, Palestine
March 20, 2016

ABSTRACT

Cars are useful technology for everyone. Humans drive everywhere

with cars, and there is no conflicts like the past. The car safe time and it is
fast enough to let anyone go where he wants too. There is a problem that is
affecting the life. Pollution is a big problem that causes a lot of diseases.
These diseases might kill Humans. There are a lot of types of pollution that
causes the death of the environment. Water pollution, Soil Pollution, and the
huge problem is the Air pollution, which is from cars. The electric car is the
best car, because it doesn't do any conflicts in the pollution. There's no
waste in this car, and it saves time and it does not need gasoline to works. It
works by using battery and charge it, also it's made out of recycling. Those
are the cars that should be increasing in the environment.

INTRODUCTION

Everyone needs cars to go to his work, and do his job. There is a huge
conflict that faces the environment with using the cars, which is the
pollution. The air gets risky and some people might die from it. It's also
terrible, because it will cross out the beauty of the country and everywhere.
Smelling the air for the small kids especially would cause them ill and go to
the doctors. Using the electric cars that was invented in Gaza are the best
solution for this situation, because there's no air pollution get out of it, it's
safer for all the humans. It will not kill the beautiful environment, the more
cleanly beautiful country, the more safer for the humans. This car made the
life easier for humans, it also saved the life, the humans, the environment, it
saved every small thing from risk, and danger. Cars are good for not making
anything difficult, but it does for the life, for everything.

METHODS

Materials:
1) Mousetrap.

2) Four CDs.
3) Four rubber bands.
4) Four sticks.
5) Glue.

DISCUSSION

The Problem of Cars

Shams Ismail
The problem that most of the world literally does have it is Pollution.
Air pollution is a big dangerous toward the environment and the humans.
Most of people die every day and every minute because of this big disease
that everyone does believe it's like that. Person dies in that minute and the
other behind him and the other is in the hospital. If people do really want to
know the reason of all these problems that happens with the country. The
reason is the cars. cars is the only main point for all of these diseases.
There's is a lot of diseases that a lot of people has one of them is having a
problem with their lungs, and not breathing correctly like a deep breath that
sometimes could force the person to die. also there is the factories that are a
lot of them are in town that will be mixed with cars air that will make a very
big problem that maybe have no solution for it to solve, except just two ways
they could have to finish; one is building factories in far places that will not
kill any animals or plants or humans. The second one is to make the cars
move in some sides that will never hurt anyone not any person.

The First Electric Car in Palestine

Taima Haj
Waseem Khazendar and Fayaz Anan were who made the car.
Khazendar and Anan converted a 1994 Peugeot 205 to run on 34 standard
car batteries. It travels up to 60 mph, and can run for up to 100 miles on a
single charge. The car can be charged by a standard electrical outlet for just
$1.50 per charge, which is a stark contrast to the $50 per gallon highs that
Gaza Strip drivers have paid for gasoline. Best of all, the car produces zero
greenhouse gas emissions.

Four hundred people in Gaza have already lined up to pay $2,500 for

the conversion. Because of the Israeli blockade, however, Anan says that
they only have the supplies to convert 30 or 40 cars. If Israel allows more
materials to cross the border, it might drop the conversion price to $1,700.
The pairs are thinking of turning their project into a multimillion dollar
business.

Its cheaper and less time consuming than spending hours waiting in line for
petrol. There are certain drawbacks to the vehicle. For one, it can only carry
two people, has limited speed capabilities (as previously mentioned) and has
to be charged for five hours with an electric cable after which it can run only

for four hours. Still, on the plus side, the car was built entirely from recycled
materials.2

Graphing

The green line stopped at 0, because the slope is also 0, the equation
of the slope is Y2-Y1, over X2-X1. It's constant.

The red line is decreasing, the amount of speed is decreasing, because

it is going all the way down, and the speed is decreasing more and it is
slower.
The blue line is going up, because the amount of speed is going up,
whenever the distance and time are also increasing. The cars speed is
increasing, and it moves very fast up.

The speed of the mousetrap car

The time for the car was 41Seconds, and the distance was 100cm, so
there is an equation to know who fast the car is moving. Speed= Distance
over Time. The distance was 100cm, and the time was 41 seconds. Distance
divided Time= 2.4m/second squared.

The Three laws of Motion

If an object is at rest, it will stay at rest, unless an unbalanced force
acts on it. If an object is moving it will stay at the same speed, and direction,
unless an unbalanced force acts on it.

Force= Mass*Acceleration. The unit for Force is Newton. The unit for
Mass is Kg, or grams. The unit for acceleration is m/second squared. Weight
is an example of force, and it's unit is Newton.
The third low, is for every action, there is an equal, and opposite
reaction.

The Mass of the Mousetrap car

The mass of the car is 194.6 times 10/m squared= 1946 m per second
squared.

ACKNOWLEDGMNTS
This paper was written by Taima Haj and Shams Ismail. So thanks to
Pioneers Baccalaureate
School for providing us the space to work, and Internet for researching. Miss
Katie for art supplies and Miss Sarah Yozzo for the idea.

LITERATURE CITED

1 http://www.greenprophet.com/2008/07/gaza-electric-cars/1+2 2http://inhabitat.com/gazasfirst-electric-vehicle-built-from-recycled-materials-for-1000/