Physics is Phun: rube goldberg machine
Channel: barn owl
Date: 2014-06-07

A rube goldberg machine is a complex device that preforms a simple task. Ours puts a ball in a cup. It was made after AP's by the class of 2014.

The wind-up dreidel walks off the table, pulls a string which closes the scissors which cuts a string that was holding a pencil which pops a balloon which was holding up a textbook. As the textbook tips, it lifts one end of the newtons cradle, which does what newtons cradles do, hitting the cart that rolls down the track, falls onto a meter stick which releases the lever on a device that shoots out a ball which hits the backboard and lands in the cup. 

Physics is Phun!