The Miracle

A Project by

Gerrit Hale&

Dennis Mcghee

The Device

Bottle with dry ice and hot

water

Battery rests

on plat-form and

falls on wood

support

Hammer falls and smashes balloon

Shoe Falls

Buzzer goes off in alarming victory

Balloon pops

Stored Energy

• There is potential gravitational energy at the three points with the arrows

Summary of Construction Issues

• Our initial plan was to have a ball launch to knock over the wall with the nail but we couldn’t get the ball to launch correctly.

• The nail would not pop the balloon.• We couldn’t get the balloon to inflate and

start the battery to roll.

Conclusions

• This project is a great example an “alarming” number of steps just to press a button.

• It also showed the many ways energy can be stored and then released to perform a task.

• In the end we laughed, we cried, and learned the difference between cork board and plywood.