Hollywood+Cars

Hollywood Cars! This is an YCSTech Production that was made by Madelyn Lanoue, Spencer Jacobs, and Adam Wise. We look at a myth that is seen in movies. Often we see cars, or motorcycles going off cliffs and hardly dropping in height. We launch cars of an edge at different distances and between different gaps. We put a chart in the background, and we can see how fast the cars drop. Car 1 was the hotwheels car, car two was the complicated kinex car, and finally car 3 was the basic k'nex car. We had the same person pushing the cars to keep the tests as close as possible. In the end we busted the myth. The only cars that could make it across the gaps were as wide as the gap. We saw that the cars dropped very quickly.

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