Land Yacht - Science

Land Yacht

Aim:

To build the fastest land yacht. 

Method:

-Create the paper sail out of 1m paper roll

-Tape cardboard triangles to the sides of the metal rod

-Tape 1m paper roll to cardboard triangles

-Set sail!

Equipment List:

-1m paper roll

-2m tape

-Cardboard square

-Metal Rod

-Trolley

Research:

We searched up photos of what Land Yachts look like so we had an idea of what we were going to build for tomorrow's lesson.

Drawn Plan:

(ignore the doodles)

Result:

Discussion:
V = d / t
= 0.21
Our land yacht went 2 metres in 9.41 seconds (to work out the velocity you need to divide the distance by the time). Our land yacht for the first few seconds was going reasonably fast but then it slowed down.

Conclusion:
We should have definitely gone closer to the starting line while using the leafblower because if we did it might have gone a bit longer before it fell over. It was alright though, I didn't even think it would go 2m. It was fun making it and fun driving it too.