1st place Mousetrap Car Ideas

2018 ж. 28 Нау.
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Summary: To understand how mousetrap cars work you first need to understand the concept of mechanical advantage. There are 4 principles to win with a long distance car:
And 4 principles for winning with a speed car:
Finally, we visit the Science Olympiad to see these principles in action
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  • When we did this in highschool our speed/acceleration contest was only over a meter, so I just used the mouse trap to catapult my car over the finish line.

    @danieljensen2626@danieljensen26264 жыл бұрын
    • Modern problems require ancient solutions

      @kyleguajardo@kyleguajardo4 жыл бұрын
    • *yeet*

      @a_stone@a_stone4 жыл бұрын
    • How’d that work for you

      @James-tv2bm@James-tv2bm4 жыл бұрын
    • @@James-tv2bm Great, I won easily. It was so fast you couldn't really hand time it properly. Of course it rarely landed on its wheels so it wasn't any good over a longer distance.

      @danieljensen2626@danieljensen26264 жыл бұрын
    • That's actually smart

      @fieldmarshal7298@fieldmarshal72984 жыл бұрын
  • The internet needs more people like Mark Rober. KZhead should give incentives for NASA employees to become creators.

    @PotatoJet@PotatoJet6 жыл бұрын
    • Potato Jet my science teacher is a scientist with the opportunity rover. Its cool because there is a club thing where we get to work with nasa with it. However that teacher isn’t very nice and I have been yelled at for doing what I was supposed to be doing a couple times. One specific instance of this was with force vectors. She asked the class how to do them without telling us first. I connected it to vectors which we saw in geometry but I was yelled at to stop doing geometry because this is science. She then explained how to do it and it was geometry... I wouldn’t like to see her on KZhead tbh.

      @sunglassesdude4819@sunglassesdude48196 жыл бұрын
    • NASA employees should stick to being important

      @pasghikhami1342@pasghikhami13426 жыл бұрын
    • Pasgh ikhami getting to Mars is important but following your passion and having a life is also important

      @sunglassesdude4819@sunglassesdude48196 жыл бұрын
    • Has anyone ever tried using this same concept to propell something like a paper airplane? Doesnt necessarily need to be made out of paper because thats flimsy, but i think that would be a fun idea too

      @goblingamer606@goblingamer6066 жыл бұрын
    • Not all NASA employees are like him they are mostly old

      @jamesg265@jamesg2655 жыл бұрын
  • Can you imagine how lucky some future kid is gonna be to be able to call Mark Rober their physics teacher??

    @robertboyd2223@robertboyd22233 жыл бұрын
    • omg now thats something mind blowing

      @bwbacthe2nd589@bwbacthe2nd5892 жыл бұрын
    • yes,I wish we could study again

      @Rentaro_dev@Rentaro_dev2 жыл бұрын
    • Could you imagine the school board looking at what he would want to do? Lol

      @chriswilliamson806@chriswilliamson8062 жыл бұрын
    • @@chriswilliamson806 so today we’re gonna catapult an entire cafeteria

      @robertboyd2223@robertboyd22232 жыл бұрын
    • Well we can also call him our physics teacher too. Just for us he teaches us here on KZhead as oppose to a classroom.

      @andyrockism@andyrockism2 жыл бұрын
  • in my 8th grade science class we are actually doing something where you can either build a lander or a rover, no electricity and stuff like that. I had the egg drop thing as an idea for a lander and this for a rover and I'm super excited to test both out and see which one is better.

    @_reddical_5813@_reddical_58132 жыл бұрын
    • So what happened

      @resentfulsidecharacter3713@resentfulsidecharacter3713 Жыл бұрын
  • - Dad, why is my sister called Rose? - Because your mother loves flowers. - Oh ok, thanks dad.. - No problem, Mechanical Advantage.

    @jean-philipebouvier6932@jean-philipebouvier69324 жыл бұрын
    • *D E L E T E T H I S C O M M E N T*

      @BlitzBodyBeats@BlitzBodyBeats3 жыл бұрын
    • @@BlitzBodyBeats Why

      @WarmongerSlays@WarmongerSlays3 жыл бұрын
    • @@WarmongerSlays some man want to watch the world burn

      @TheDogBasti@TheDogBasti3 жыл бұрын
    • No problem. *communism*

      @croccroc4000@croccroc40003 жыл бұрын
    • EEE EEE no problem democracy

      @order66pizzas@order66pizzas3 жыл бұрын
  • I wish Mark was my physics teacher...

    @Spock1777@Spock17775 жыл бұрын
    • That would be amazing class would never be boring

      @alexbaker9996@alexbaker99965 жыл бұрын
    • You and everyone else. Move to Denver Mark

      @owenmarsh1985@owenmarsh19855 жыл бұрын
    • I know!

      @nataliaray7315@nataliaray73155 жыл бұрын
    • My Physic teachers failed me with a 59.6 in high school. I went after school everyday to work on crap because everything was group based. My friend didn't know anything, and stoner girl didn't show up. The workload was added on as the first group finished, so it was impossible to actually keep up. Two years after I graduate I found out he was sleeping with a sophomore girl and was caught and he fled the country....Yeah I wish this guy had been my Physics teacher.

      @Wintercourse@Wintercourse5 жыл бұрын
    • @@neb4587 I couldn't get full credit because I didn't have group members to finish their stuff. Yeah he was a creep.

      @Wintercourse@Wintercourse5 жыл бұрын
  • It’s almost 2022 and I’m still enjoying this video, I mean the way Mark explains engineering is so amazing.

    @josephdreamz@josephdreamz2 жыл бұрын
    • yes ikr he also inspired me to make a montage in my video

      @DUDEFISH_@DUDEFISH_2 жыл бұрын
    • Welcome to Joseph's nightmare

      @Dragon-Slay3r@Dragon-Slay3r Жыл бұрын
    • It's almost 2023 and I'm still enjoying this video, I mean the way Mark explains engineering is so amazing.

      @limeedhot@limeedhot Жыл бұрын
    • its already 2023 for me

      @megagatlingpea2322@megagatlingpea23225 ай бұрын
    • Hello its 2024 buddy wake u0

      @itzpogboy@itzpogboy2 ай бұрын
  • no one is talking about how mark was outside IN THE RAIN for a bit just so he can explain the topic he was on. I want him to be my teacher.

    @superblooperboss1638@superblooperboss16383 жыл бұрын
  • The way Mark explains physics is not only easier to understand than school ever taught me but he makes it so much more interesting

    @itzsophxo8154@itzsophxo81543 жыл бұрын
    • chicken nuggets

      @JupiterKnight@JupiterKnight3 жыл бұрын
    • Yes exactly

      @rockhopper6316@rockhopper63163 жыл бұрын
    • @@rockhopper6316 What scares me is "go dominate the competition" means you won by like 1.5 mm

      @wren7195@wren71953 жыл бұрын
    • @@JupiterKnight chicken numgies

      @LawrenceLS@LawrenceLS3 жыл бұрын
    • @@wren7195 yea lol

      @rockhopper6316@rockhopper63163 жыл бұрын
  • When mr. Rober is a physics teacher to almost 10 million people and doesn't realize it.

    @twobladedswordsandmauls2120@twobladedswordsandmauls21204 жыл бұрын
    • On-Plot-Point physics, engineering, math, science, medical information, problem solving, and FUN!!!

      @sentientmouse5332@sentientmouse53324 жыл бұрын
    • @@Shrin3Iroh 10.2 mil

      @Ivara4226@Ivara42264 жыл бұрын
    • @flowazx 10.3 mil

      @salteds0cks@salteds0cks4 жыл бұрын
    • @@salteds0cks 10.4 mil

      @adi-sngh@adi-sngh4 жыл бұрын
    • *don't

      @notoctoboy5703@notoctoboy57034 жыл бұрын
  • Hey Mark! Nice Video. I wanted to point out that, at 2:03, mechanical advantage doesn't necessarily equal number of pulleys in all pulley systems. This is because fixed pulleys (pulleys which don't move while the load does) have a mechanical advantage of 1, while movable pulleys (pulleys which do move while the load does) have a mechanical advantage of 2. This is why, in your case, the pulley system had a mechanical advantage of 4: the specific arrangement and positioning of 2 movable and 2 fixed pulleys allowed the system to have a mechanical advantage of 4. However, it is important to note that this doesn't happen to all arrangements of 4 pulleys, as if you were to line up 4 fixed pulleys, you would still get an mechanical advantage of 1, not 4. Thus, you cannot say that mechanical advantage equals number of pulleys in all pulley systems. Instead, you could "split" up the tension along the ropes of a pulley through a diagram. Here's the procedure: you first can imagine that you are holding the end of whatever pulley system you are trying to solve with such a force such that the system is in static equilibrium. Next, you can split the tension caused by the force of the load among the ropes of the pulley system. The key to remember is that each unbroken piece of rope will have uniform tension along it. Finally, you keep splitting the tension all the way until you reach the rope which you are holding. The mechanical advantage of the pulley system will simply be the the load force divided by the effort force, which is simply equal to the tension in that rope you are holding, since the system is in static equilibrium. THAT is the correct way to solve for the mechanical advantage of a pulley system (sorry if I explained it badly). Additionally, I wanted to point out that, at 2:08, mechanical advantage of an inclined plane does not equal the ratio of the length to the height unless the inclined plane is just flat and not inclined, in which case I wouldn't really call it an "inclined" plane. But instead, mechanical advantage of an inclined plane is equal to the ratio of the hypotenuse to the height. This can be derived like this: the load force on the inclined plane is simply equal to its downward force caused by gravity, which is simple equal to f = ma = mg. We can split this force into its x- and y- components, which we can then deduce that the force of the load in the direction parallel to and going down the hypotenuse of the inclined plane is equal to mgsin(theta), in which theta is the angle of the elevation of the inclined plane. This means that, if we were to push the load up on the inclined plane with force mgsin(theta), then the system would achieve static equilibrium. In other words, the load would stay in place. Since we know that mechanical advantage is defined as the ratio of the output force to the input force, that would simply mean that the mechanical advantage of the inclined plane would be mg/mgsin(theta), as mg is the output force in this case and mgsin(theta) is the input force in this case. This simplifies to 1/sin(theta). This is simply equal to the ratio of the hypotenuse to the side opposite angle theta, which in this case is height. Thus, mechanical advantage of an inclined plane is equal to the ratio of the hypotenuse to the height.

    @danielliang2946@danielliang2946 Жыл бұрын
    • I’m to lazy to read gib a summary

      @penflex8997@penflex8997 Жыл бұрын
    • you are absolutley correct but remember mark is tying to simplify these things so people with zero knowledge can understad. he would have lost a LOT of people hadd he tried to explain all of that. hence why he ust suggests we do it ourselves

      @FluffyDragonDrawing@FluffyDragonDrawing Жыл бұрын
    • @@FluffyDragonDrawing summary cool waited awhile

      @penflex8997@penflex8997 Жыл бұрын
  • this has sat in my brain for 3 years and has silently been supporting me through my physics classes. Thank you.

    @luigio8484@luigio84842 жыл бұрын
  • “Thank yo-“ Niece: ** *Slaps Ice Cream* ** “O WOAAH”

    @kinju6227@kinju62274 жыл бұрын
    • so rude

      @Yehe13@Yehe134 жыл бұрын
    • Trenity R salty slap

      @emmaly8993@emmaly89934 жыл бұрын
    • that was cringe

      @rapiintheskyy3585@rapiintheskyy35853 жыл бұрын
    • @@Yehe13 it was scripted, you can see they love him

      @Sillimant_@Sillimant_3 жыл бұрын
    • @@rapiintheskyy3585 it was part of the joke, much like your continued existence

      @Sillimant_@Sillimant_3 жыл бұрын
  • 1:36 Mark: But I could lift 10lbs 50 times. *Uses a 12 pound weight*

    @jonathanhuang6156@jonathanhuang61564 жыл бұрын
    • Also said his car weighed 500 lbs soooooo

      @zestymushr00m85@zestymushr00m854 жыл бұрын
    • YoYO Semite which is my point, the weight was also an example to keep math simple

      @zestymushr00m85@zestymushr00m854 жыл бұрын
    • @@zestymushr00m85 it was only one corner of the car being lifted. Which he estimated at 500 pounds

      @arzonfyre8421@arzonfyre84214 жыл бұрын
    • Guys he was just giving an example🙃🙃 I’m agreeing with Jonathan Huang just using the car weight example

      @zestymushr00m85@zestymushr00m854 жыл бұрын
    • YoYO Semite what, where’s the acceleration? You have distance.

      @GamingWO-@GamingWO-4 жыл бұрын
  • I first did this project in 1987 during my student teaching in Industrial arts. We used two mouse traps which allowed options on how to best utilize them. I continued this project for the next 12 years as an engineering project in Drafting class. Best run was 437 feet in a 12 foot wide hallway so straight tracking was important. The best wheels were 33rpm vinyl record albums. I didn't invent this project and don't know it's origins.

    @bonook8@bonook82 жыл бұрын
  • The way he explained physics is so much better then the 9 years of science class I've taken

    @LuckyBoi-vg3ch@LuckyBoi-vg3ch3 жыл бұрын
    • nerd!

      @rizzthespacething8823@rizzthespacething88235 ай бұрын
  • I learned more in the first 5 minutes than a whole semester in high school

    @luxraylloyd7932@luxraylloyd79324 жыл бұрын
    • Sad but tru

      @ferretrevelvent6793@ferretrevelvent67933 жыл бұрын
    • Maybe short term, but learning is (or should be) based on retained understanding and application.

      @marylawrence2218@marylawrence22183 жыл бұрын
    • Mary Lawrence yeah you are right but you can re watch the video

      @asbuilt0017@asbuilt00173 жыл бұрын
    • I feel this. I just wish I had a physics teacher in high school that didn't play favorites to their special projects group (in this case, the solar bike team). If you were on the team, you got her complete attention, if you weren't then tough cookies read the book and too bad if you don't understand it from reading the chapter.

      @avitus2@avitus23 жыл бұрын
    • @@avitus2 If you have a teacher that has favorites, that sucks.

      @luxraylloyd7932@luxraylloyd79323 жыл бұрын
  • Breaking news: Worker in NASA go to school to totally annihilate kids in mousetrap car race

    @lavissebruh3144@lavissebruh31444 жыл бұрын
    • Yuen Kik Li former

      @MineShineMarshal@MineShineMarshal4 жыл бұрын
    • Correction: Former Worker at NASA went to a school to totally annihilate kids -in mousetrap car race-

      @chaosincarnate7304@chaosincarnate73044 жыл бұрын
    • This was for the mousetrap vehicle event for Science Olympiad. Teams spend forever on designs so that’s why Mark did not show the design the team he was visiting was using. They were actually going to nationals and why would Mark leak a teams design if they’re going to Cornell.

      @kirtan__@kirtan__4 жыл бұрын
    • lol

      @cogn0765@cogn07654 жыл бұрын
  • I never did this as a kid but being an auto mechanic now I got a huge kick out of this video! Made me think about the mathematics of transmissions and differential final drive ratios. Super fun keep up the great work!

    @kennethborden929@kennethborden9292 жыл бұрын
  • I think I just found a lifetime hobby. Every science teacher I’ve ever had said I possess an extremely intuitive understanding of physics and this seems to be a perfect application of that. Just seeing this video makes my mind go crazy thinking of all the ways I could attempt to improve the design. I wonder if you could devise an equation that could predictably determine what the optimal ratio of mechanical advantage for a given car would be, accounting for factors like weight, wheel diameter, coefficient of friction on the wheels, axels, and every other moving part where friction is present. Obviously there’s a perfectly optimal car that could be made if you could fully understand all these factors and that’s what is most alluring to me.

    @user-fp6fr5kj4x@user-fp6fr5kj4x2 ай бұрын
  • Press F to pay respects to icecream

    @ItsJayTho@ItsJayTho5 жыл бұрын
    • Jayden Games bruh im eating some rn 😂😂

      @fluxsneaky6063@fluxsneaky60635 жыл бұрын
    • Uhhh, im on phone.... 🙄

      @Naat.ee12@Naat.ee125 жыл бұрын
    • F

      @maazurrehman9998@maazurrehman99985 жыл бұрын
    • F

      @520gamingandvlogs9@520gamingandvlogs95 жыл бұрын
    • @@Naat.ee12 just press reply then SIMPLY press f :)

      @ItsJayTho@ItsJayTho5 жыл бұрын
  • i was expecting a mouse trap that catches a mouse and drives away with it

    @fabianklevenz4800@fabianklevenz48003 жыл бұрын
    • Whisper voice: lol, me too!

      @gloriaroma-sandiegorealest4037@gloriaroma-sandiegorealest40373 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @greatacarrillo@greatacarrillo3 жыл бұрын
    • Hit & Run

      @SSruh@SSruh3 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @gamingwithluke5592@gamingwithluke55923 жыл бұрын
    • Ha

      @shmup6955@shmup69553 жыл бұрын
  • I used this video back in seventh grade over the course of 4 weeks to build a fully optimized (realistically) car. Sadly the pandemic hit and I never got to see how far it went.

    @ttimmythy@ttimmythy2 жыл бұрын
  • Me: This is boring, I can’t wait till schools out *Schools out* Me:*watches educational videos for fun*

    @ldbeastmode0689@ldbeastmode06894 жыл бұрын
    • Learning is never over.

      @DreidMusicalX@DreidMusicalX4 жыл бұрын
    • Hey thats me

      @OeshenNix@OeshenNix4 жыл бұрын
    • Same bro I watch them all the time

      @mamabear9467@mamabear94674 жыл бұрын
    • This is me I used to just binge watch every large educational channel, then I stopped and now I'm finally getting back into it

      @ndzd9941@ndzd99414 жыл бұрын
    • Yea in quarantine I'm out of school but I wish I was in it

      @ldw0696@ldw06964 жыл бұрын
  • If he was a teacher at my high school I would never leave the class

    @kartikgohansiwach@kartikgohansiwach4 жыл бұрын
    • Or fail

      @MJaneth@MJaneth4 жыл бұрын
    • @@MJaneth no i would fail so i would have him again

      @tychus7@tychus74 жыл бұрын
    • Bruh so u skip wooowwwwww

      @olerius1235@olerius12354 жыл бұрын
    • @@tychus7 that's not a good thing

      @olerius1235@olerius12354 жыл бұрын
    • Ditto

      @andycunningham1731@andycunningham17313 жыл бұрын
  • Wonderful! From your intro, I thought you were going to make your own design, better than any other. Even so, I enjoyed the lesson.

    @EbenVisher@EbenVisher3 жыл бұрын
  • I made a mousetrap car in 10th grade with a gearbox that made it run for over 30 seconds continuously, but the wheels spun on the tile floor it was tested on and barely went anywhere. Needless to say I didn't win but I've never seen anyone else make one like mine.

    @simplegunsmith@simplegunsmith Жыл бұрын
  • Mark: "A little bit of water spills out every time" Also mark: *Purposely misses cup*

    @ChaoticCrimsonX@ChaoticCrimsonX3 жыл бұрын
    • He is Like realy Bad at pouring

      @prinzeszelda3650@prinzeszelda36503 жыл бұрын
    • @The Demon Under Your Bed • 3 years ago thx

      @prinzeszelda3650@prinzeszelda36503 жыл бұрын
    • you should see liam thompson pour liquid

      @umbraltears3434@umbraltears34343 жыл бұрын
    • Mark: Talks like a smart person Me: I don't know what you're talking about, but it seems interesting

      @manuelpatino5879@manuelpatino58793 жыл бұрын
    • the winning model is the one where the mousetrap lever activates a electric motor...

      @richardlooch2109@richardlooch21093 жыл бұрын
  • Mark: “I want to be a physics teacher later on” Every subscribers: ^ *has been learning from him since the beginning* ^ 👀

    @Shrew-22O1@Shrew-22O14 жыл бұрын
    • Naruto X Hinata k

      @HighTiered@HighTiered3 жыл бұрын
  • 1:43 my guy literally standing in the rain for science.... +1 respect

    @notsiddhi2820@notsiddhi28202 жыл бұрын
  • In a design class, we had to make a bridge using two pieces of ondulated paper (it had a standard size, but I don't remember anyone) and one roll of masking tape each team. It would be placed linking tow tables 0,5m apart and then we would place 1L bottles over it to see what design would hold more. Many bridges had problems with tortion, or with the paper bending, but my idea avoided those two problems and was able to hold all the bottles available (about 20 bottles) and we started adding other stuff.

    @thomasfplm@thomasfplm2 жыл бұрын
  • I laughed so hard when your niece knocked the ice-cream out of your hand.

    @DarthBil1@DarthBil15 жыл бұрын
    • DarthBil1 IKR LOL

      @duckyfam9012@duckyfam90124 жыл бұрын
    • Ows talaga ba?

      @Vic_Inso@Vic_Inso4 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @_Grimm333_@_Grimm333_4 жыл бұрын
    • @@Vic_Inso filipino?

      @gal3win213@gal3win2134 жыл бұрын
    • Wait when?

      @lamp1739@lamp17394 жыл бұрын
  • i dont watch because its relevant, i watch because its entertaining...

    @bigandfluffy2000@bigandfluffy20006 жыл бұрын
    • True

      @fqidz@fqidz6 жыл бұрын
    • me to

      @Aciey@Aciey6 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @yeahyou7827@yeahyou78276 жыл бұрын
    • I agree with you

      @Tfifiuyiugtjfytyftj@Tfifiuyiugtjfytyftj6 жыл бұрын
    • JoeSloppyJoe I watch it for both

      @literallybooby2737@literallybooby27376 жыл бұрын
  • Great video, small thing, had this same mouse trap challenge in my junior year in high school physics class in 1989. It was a great learning experience! Don't remember who won, we had an incredible teacher, just like Mr. Karud. Big props to him for his dedication to his students!

    @kjteitel@kjteitel2 жыл бұрын
    • You are correct. I taught Industrial arts and did this beginning in 1987. I did not come up with the idea and don't know it's origins but I do know it did not begin in 1991.

      @bonook8@bonook82 жыл бұрын
  • This is a fantastic video, but I will say that in 8th grade my best friend and I were tasked with building a mouse trap car that didn't use a pulley system as a sort of "bonus" project. We built a tiny car, launched it with the mousetrap, and won the competition for our class. It believe it went almost double the next best vehicle's distance, and I personally built the 2nd place car.

    @nika.5223@nika.52233 жыл бұрын
  • you would be a GREAT science or tech ed teacher

    @lunaabney6312@lunaabney63125 жыл бұрын
    • Or a physics teacher

      @carsenwhitmore1559@carsenwhitmore15595 жыл бұрын
    • Gavin D'Souza no search anonymous

      @iamanartistbutcantdraw4454@iamanartistbutcantdraw44545 жыл бұрын
    • Oh I'm a anonymous member too

      @xxfluffydogxx7026@xxfluffydogxx70265 жыл бұрын
    • @@Vertense do you even know anonymous?

      @xxfluffydogxx7026@xxfluffydogxx70265 жыл бұрын
    • Hi

      @peggzmugga1811@peggzmugga18115 жыл бұрын
  • Lesson of the day: don't make a bet with mark

    @theevauwu7853@theevauwu78533 жыл бұрын
    • Yes that is so true

      @lucron12@lucron123 жыл бұрын
    • You’re really correct

      @lucron12@lucron123 жыл бұрын
    • Im just doing this so it Will look like People comment

      @lucron12@lucron123 жыл бұрын
    • : )

      @lucron12@lucron123 жыл бұрын
    • You welcome Eva Slyva

      @lucron12@lucron123 жыл бұрын
  • This was a fun high school competition back in the day. I still keep my car as a momento as it's just such a satisfying design - the comp was a speed one and we took the win. The car we made was four wheel drive and light - the four wheel drive was chosen to maximise the traction availability along with tricks to manage traction and energy. We had hypothesised about friction and traction in class, none of us had real karting or racing experience at the time but this was certainly a time where it became apparent. The result was fast enough to be challenging to time.

    @mdfyui8000@mdfyui80002 жыл бұрын
  • the longer lever arm also increased the amount of string pulled, and the smaller of the ratio of axle to wheel makes the rotations let the car go further

    @aarushprasad4493@aarushprasad44932 жыл бұрын
  • When you learn more in a 15min video then in 13 years school

    @amauryd@amauryd5 жыл бұрын
    • true

      @fezankhan536@fezankhan5365 жыл бұрын
    • Exactly

      @ballistic3666@ballistic36665 жыл бұрын
    • *than. Now you’ve got some grammar too 😜

      @akefayamenay104@akefayamenay1045 жыл бұрын
    • fck yeah

      @jococallos9361@jococallos93615 жыл бұрын
    • Happy birthday to you and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play a game because I am BORED and I really want to play

      @myaopsahl999@myaopsahl9995 жыл бұрын
  • Hey! That's me at 12:50 ! Super cool to see a Science Olympiad event highlighted on your channel! It was great to meet you and talk about my car.

    @Mo-dp6rc@Mo-dp6rc6 жыл бұрын
    • Seriously

      @nyensimpfenderfer4980@nyensimpfenderfer49806 жыл бұрын
    • SCIOLY IS LIFE

      @Yeujer@Yeujer6 жыл бұрын
    • Sweet! Congratz!

      @RSpudieD@RSpudieD6 жыл бұрын
    • just finished my SCOILY event at 4:00

      @db_d.a.b651@db_d.a.b6516 жыл бұрын
    • >TFW States is already over I didn't work on my teams mousetrap. I did 3D print the bearing mounts though. I think it actually got first at states.

      @waterlubber@waterlubber6 жыл бұрын
  • When I was in HS I built many of them. Our rules wouldn't allow for any modifications to the trap and had overall dimension regulations so it could only be so large. Mine would go the full length of the basketball gym at the school. Great memories. Cool video

    @t-6273@t-62732 жыл бұрын
  • Hey Mark, Any chance you can make a video on your work bench. I think a lot of people and myself would be interested in it. It’d probably encourage people to recreate and experiment with their own science projects. Best- PS Phat Gus rules.

    @oneproudchump8457@oneproudchump8457 Жыл бұрын
  • I wish we did something cool like this when I was in school... good job on the video! :)

    @ExperimentalFun@ExperimentalFun6 жыл бұрын
    • We didn't even have a science fair at my school.

      @AzimuthSolutions@AzimuthSolutions6 жыл бұрын
    • I was supposed to do mouse trap cars but my school canceled it.

      @connermcgibbon6934@connermcgibbon69346 жыл бұрын
    • Experimental Fun I hate u

      @victorcho1242@victorcho12426 жыл бұрын
    • why do you hate me?

      @ExperimentalFun@ExperimentalFun6 жыл бұрын
    • Experimental Fun yep same

      @Rikardo35@Rikardo356 жыл бұрын
  • If he was my physics teacher I would skip other classes to go to his class

    @Frank_142@Frank_1424 жыл бұрын
    • Future Fire ikr

      @turtles8930@turtles89304 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @nicoliftsz@nicoliftsz4 жыл бұрын
    • Future Fire he’s my teacher😂

      @igorchurilov5611@igorchurilov56114 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @chillnub641@chillnub6414 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @SupremeLordGeek@SupremeLordGeek4 жыл бұрын
  • I remember doing something like this in school but with bottle cars and their were two types that worked really well because we were going off a ramp aiming to get in a bin, one that worked well was light weight and hand wings to glide in so used hardly any power, the other was heavy and basically dropped in like a rock so used more power (my group was the wings one), their was this one group that tried to just copy both designs and combine them together so the heavy thing combined with the wings, so theirs didn't work well because they tried to combine two completely different methods.

    @malikthemadman@malikthemadman2 жыл бұрын
  • WOW so nicely done. Wish I had this when I was teaching mousetrap cars years ago.

    @daneykev@daneykev3 жыл бұрын
  • Just get an electric mousetrap and use it as a motor *modern problems require modern solutions*

    @Dumbassfish63@Dumbassfish635 жыл бұрын
    • I love this comment

      @jdwolf55@jdwolf555 жыл бұрын
    • in the case of science Olympiad at least, you're not allowed to use electronic devices

      @vye6737@vye67375 жыл бұрын
    • *outstanding move*

      @tacosauce6268@tacosauce62685 жыл бұрын
    • Satria Sutena haha

      @Doughy3205@Doughy32055 жыл бұрын
    • Solar panel 😂

      @magicl3o@magicl3o4 жыл бұрын
  • Nobody: Mark: Dang it I wanted to be a physics teacher but I ended up working at nasa

    @rxq8289@rxq82893 жыл бұрын
    • Lolol definitely

      @blahnomnomnom@blahnomnomnom3 жыл бұрын
    • Aw I wanted to be a millionare not a billionare

      @finn596@finn5963 жыл бұрын
    • @DrewZull Káędîij NASA* but yeah

      @Tyrantstorm@Tyrantstorm3 жыл бұрын
    • YourDudeBk because it is really annoying to many people when someone corrects a small issue, ‘cause it makes them feel like they can’t make mistakes or else they get a red flag. i know many people who hate that.

      @GrandpaPapi@GrandpaPapi3 жыл бұрын
    • @@GrandpaPapi werent you the one that corrected first? and who called someone a nerd?

      @zane1623@zane16233 жыл бұрын
  • Love your videos and I am making a mouse trap car for mine and I decided to watch your video to get an idea of how to do it

    @Nintendofan295@Nintendofan2959 күн бұрын
  • Mark Rober, im making it, the current best for my school is 33 feet, thanks mark, we will win

    @LeFishee@LeFishee7 ай бұрын
  • Mark: Talks like a smart person Me: I don't know what you're talking about, but it seems interesting

    @nwiiho4215@nwiiho42153 жыл бұрын
    • True

      @azaanammar3841@azaanammar38413 жыл бұрын
    • shungite

      @pizzathegamer8249@pizzathegamer82493 жыл бұрын
    • @@pizzathegamer8249 J O I N U S

      @nwiiho4215@nwiiho42153 жыл бұрын
    • @@nwiiho4215 SHUNGITE

      @pizzathegamer8249@pizzathegamer82493 жыл бұрын
    • Same man I feel you

      @casvandelaar8671@casvandelaar86713 жыл бұрын
  • Somebody: Creates a contest that's a thing just in the USA. USA: Yay, World Record! ;-)

    @FlorenzVillegas@FlorenzVillegas3 жыл бұрын
    • It's like the miss universe thing, hardly any competition when it's just earth

      @Sillimant_@Sillimant_3 жыл бұрын
    • Somebody: Creates a contest that's a thing just in the USA. USA: Yay, World Record! ;-)

      @Jaybuyshoe@Jaybuyshoe3 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah. The rest of the world just doesn’t show up to compete.

      @nathanielkidd2840@nathanielkidd28403 жыл бұрын
  • Hey Fun fact! Me and my group in a mousetrap car project got first place, thanks to this. It really helps. Thanks a lot for the ideas. Our task was the long distance car and we used the same principle as the world record type. Tip, you really need to calculate the ratio, if it’s to big the car won’t move at all. My group learned that the hard way. And everyone else in our class who tried the same principle gave up, because I would not move.

    @yuriayato9154@yuriayato9154 Жыл бұрын
    • How do you mean calculate ratio? Like how do I know when it will move?

      @Finyata@Finyata11 ай бұрын
  • Built a pinewood derby car a long time ago and my dad gave me some of the graphite he had -- those wheels had NO resistance, nice advantage!

    @tomtrinchera8405@tomtrinchera84053 жыл бұрын
  • I remember building one of these in my 8th-grade science class. Once I finished the project, and presented it at school, my father attached Estes Model Rocket Engines to the car.

    @liamlabelle8653@liamlabelle86533 жыл бұрын
    • Please tell what supplies you got for the car need help for my science project

      @J0.n.@J0.n.2 жыл бұрын
  • The ice cream cone slap was the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile.

    @bumpusjones.1978@bumpusjones.19784 жыл бұрын
  • The fact that I saw this video when it came out and just today I was assigned to make a mousetrap car in my high school physics class.

    @HALO-nv1xv@HALO-nv1xv2 жыл бұрын
    • Same. This is the optional assignment this quarter that counts as a major grade and my teacher will give out a ton of bonus points for furthest travelled, nicest looking design, etc.

      @samuelgunter@samuelgunter2 жыл бұрын
    • @@samuelgunter Its not optional for me but im sure our assignments are very similar regarding the rules and such

      @HALO-nv1xv@HALO-nv1xv2 жыл бұрын
  • Ive done this in 5th grade and it was very fun trying to build one and getting it to go far

    @rebelflag_4206@rebelflag_4206 Жыл бұрын
  • Can you believe I had to watch my favorite youtuber for homework on my Mouse trap car?? :O

    @megamaz108@megamaz1085 жыл бұрын
    • megamaz dang bro really

      @SuperMaDBrothers@SuperMaDBrothers5 жыл бұрын
    • Me too lol

      @CJDavis-js7mr@CJDavis-js7mr5 жыл бұрын
    • K

      @ttv__btw__yt4835@ttv__btw__yt48354 жыл бұрын
  • This video is a tutorial for almost all kind of rolling. I mean, it explains drag racing cars tweaks, bicycle gears/wheelsize, etc. Love the video, thx

    @kosmosan12@kosmosan124 жыл бұрын
  • I made one with 2 mouse traps in series with the string attached to a 2 sided fishing hook so it could be tranferred to the second bar. It was a cool idea and worked but not as well as the long armed ones.

    @ChachoGSX@ChachoGSX2 жыл бұрын
  • I remember making one in highschool when I had terrible time management. I had to reach a certain distance, and all I had was cardboard and 6 hours the day before it was due. I used a thread spool as a front wheel, comically large lever arm, and the largest circle I could cut out in the back. The thing went 5x the distance of almost everyone else, only being beaten out by the super low friction speedster of my buddy. It's a cherished memory of mine.

    @adissentingopinion848@adissentingopinion848 Жыл бұрын
  • My friend built a mousetrap car and it exploded when he tested it in competition

    @grimace5800@grimace58005 жыл бұрын
    • A.D.E 35 oh my hahahahaha

      @verendus7712@verendus77125 жыл бұрын
    • Wtf did he make it with?

      @wilag8er85@wilag8er855 жыл бұрын
    • wilag8er I think he meant like the spring broke and destroyed the car

      @sashimi0003@sashimi00035 жыл бұрын
    • Your picture makes this comment better

      @mr.peanutharry7723@mr.peanutharry77235 жыл бұрын
    • A.D.E 35 wow

      @ratrat5072@ratrat50725 жыл бұрын
  • 13:30 this is how happy I imagine Mark is *ALL THE TIME* when he's learning, making, and teaching! Keep up the great work!

    @Hubbmade@Hubbmade6 жыл бұрын
    • Hub Han Great minds think alike. I saw that and thought the very same thing as you did. I wish I had as great a mind as Mark.

      @jimmesc@jimmesc6 жыл бұрын
  • I have no idea what he’s talking about but I just listen

    @jessmarsuen2784@jessmarsuen27843 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @sunnyhacksdiy3509@sunnyhacksdiy35093 жыл бұрын
  • The satisfaction you get when you learn about the stuff he’s talking about

    @refundy5873@refundy58733 жыл бұрын
  • I love what you do and patiently wait for each video.Thank you for making me and my family smarter and more interested in science.

    @jasonbaker541@jasonbaker5416 жыл бұрын
    • .

      @ab-zd3ue@ab-zd3ue6 жыл бұрын
  • Was in a high school class that did this in the 1990's. The teacher had two criteria, first to 10' and longest distance traveled. So I had a car with a conical spool on the drive axle, which helps with both good starting acceleration and changing the drive ratio to stretch out the range. So I thought I was clever in trying to score well on both criteria. Turns out I wasn't clever enough... Some other kid in the class found a loophole. At the time the contest didn't stipulate that the mousetrap had to be part of the car, nor did it specify that the car must stay on the ground. So he had one of those Micro Machines toy cars and used the mousetrap to catapult it down the hallway. It flew about half the distance before bouncing off some lockers and skidding to the end of the hall. Thus insta-winning both categories, even if it wasn't in a way that was the intended nature of the contest. The teacher allowed that because he considered it fair given the provided rules, but changed the rules for the next class that did this project so no easy cheats could happen. I can only laugh about it though, since I was on friendly terms with the kid that beat my design. Nobody was allowed to copy each other, so I was wondering what strategy he had that would beat mine and I thought he was joking about it. (He wasn't wrong.) So what about my car? It ended up 4th in distance and 2nd on speed. Didn't have access to fancy bearings like others did for the distance, and only got the speed because everyone else trying for it spun their tires on the polished floor. However it did get awarded the most interesting design for having a novel approach compared to others. Everyone else thought the overall win strategy was too cheesy too.

    @pauljs75@pauljs756 жыл бұрын
    • I wish my school did things like this

      @kadenfurr9699@kadenfurr96996 жыл бұрын
    • absolute GENIUS

      @cobbiliu6222@cobbiliu62226 жыл бұрын
    • same

      @cobbiliu6222@cobbiliu62226 жыл бұрын
    • Kaden Furr I did this in 7th grade

      @global_abc6773@global_abc67736 жыл бұрын
    • I tried to do that loophole because my teacher had only listed that the rules were the mousetrap car was solely powered by a moustrap. He was mean and changed the rules for this 2 days before the project was due.

      @mrmanisaboy9037@mrmanisaboy90376 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for the video.. I almost forgot I built one in HS. My wip traveled 114 ft., I'll never forget that.

    @benjaminkari8127@benjaminkari81272 жыл бұрын
  • Mark is better at teaching me this than school ever has

    @ZeroQuantum.@ZeroQuantum.2 жыл бұрын
  • He deserves more. He literally travels soo far for just a video!😸

    @gdal6961@gdal69615 жыл бұрын
    • no crap he deserves more

      @drmg735@drmg7354 жыл бұрын
    • Yep.

      @camopug@camopug4 жыл бұрын
    • Hmmmm, you heard of Nick Robinson?

      @ansonpoon4814@ansonpoon48144 жыл бұрын
    • Yes

      @whitemingo8152@whitemingo81524 жыл бұрын
    • He also takes like months sometimes

      @kiranayuri570@kiranayuri5704 жыл бұрын
  • al is my current physics teacher, ama.

    @wink9114@wink91146 жыл бұрын
    • What is your favorite demo so far

      @angiebeattie4113@angiebeattie41136 жыл бұрын
    • thanks for the heart mark, now i'm finally famous. angie - probably the one where he blew up the ceiling with a bottle. that one was pretty neat. cos he blew stuff up. with a bottle. will - because i have the mind of a third grader

      @wink9114@wink91146 жыл бұрын
    • best teacher ever or what???

      @zAznInVaznz@zAznInVaznz6 жыл бұрын
    • Did you ever get the „Hammertreatment“?

      @perluc_@perluc_6 жыл бұрын
    • do you like bread?

      @MrDabien@MrDabien6 жыл бұрын
  • Explained mechanical advantage in five minutes with twenty or so examples better than my physics teacher did for a whole school year . . .

    @intheovaloffice@intheovaloffice Жыл бұрын
    • Seems like you have some animosity toward your teacher. Stop intentionally disrupting his class and not listening.

      @romanski5811@romanski5811 Жыл бұрын
  • I think he would is a really cool, chill, inspirational, and wholesome teacher in my opinion. 10/10

    @Ha1ivan@Ha1ivan3 жыл бұрын
  • I remember building mine out of legos. It impressed my Physics Teacher so much that he asked if he could take pictures of it to use for future examples. I hated him as a person, but I respect him as a teacher.

    @sev1011@sev10113 жыл бұрын
    • Wow.

      @playitcoolman7820@playitcoolman78203 жыл бұрын
    • Impressive.

      @edmund8954@edmund89543 жыл бұрын
    • Well that took an unexpected turn at the end, dang 😂😂

      @KmChx_MX@KmChx_MX3 жыл бұрын
  • "I can lift 10 pounds 50 times" *has a 12 pound weight*

    @tetardfoo8863@tetardfoo88634 жыл бұрын
    • same thing different number

      @giornogiovanna4758@giornogiovanna47584 жыл бұрын
    • Lol

      @cartervaught3629@cartervaught36293 жыл бұрын
    • Huh

      @DocFanti@DocFanti3 жыл бұрын
    • I saw that too! lol

      @wrog7616@wrog76163 жыл бұрын
    • Looks like it says 14 not 12

      @bronysavior7740@bronysavior77403 жыл бұрын
  • I love watching you because you teach me things without making it boring

    @harrystoyadventures817@harrystoyadventures8172 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for the video Mark Rober, I'm doing mouse trap racers for an engineering unit!

    @dontavious3772@dontavious37729 ай бұрын
  • "I could move the earth if I had a lever strong and long enough" -Archimedes (supposedly)

    @lettuce7378@lettuce73784 жыл бұрын
    • That lever would have to be 3 light-years long but yeah

      @aidanbeattie8341@aidanbeattie83414 жыл бұрын
    • @@aidanbeattie8341 lol yea

      @lettuce7378@lettuce73784 жыл бұрын
    • @@aidanbeattie8341 well better get building

      @ashishere771@ashishere7714 жыл бұрын
    • And a place to stand*

      @mrugankthatte4378@mrugankthatte43784 жыл бұрын
    • @@mrugankthatte4378 yes

      @lettuce7378@lettuce73784 жыл бұрын
  • I'm never going to let Mark pour me a glass of tea.

    @d1rtworm@d1rtworm3 жыл бұрын
    • A robot to support robot to give you the part that will attach to a robot that will pour you a tea

      @goldenmichael9981@goldenmichael99813 жыл бұрын
  • We use to race RC cars before they came out with li-ion batteries. I generally raced stock that meant 6 cells, no ball bearing motor with less turns. I think we ran either 3 minute heats or 5 and it was a great feeling when you could get your car across the finish line and then the battery run dead on another lap or two. The goal was to use all the stored energy even if it was a crappy battery pack.

    @jlouzy3829@jlouzy38293 жыл бұрын
  • 진짜 이유투버는 내가믿고 구독하고 보는 유튜버다🎉항상 재미있게 과학을 설명해주셔서감사합니다❤

    @user-sq3bd6jm8g@user-sq3bd6jm8g2 ай бұрын
  • Mark: Talking about Mechanical advantages Weather: RAIN! Mark: Keeps talking!

    @hayleygrimes8804@hayleygrimes88044 жыл бұрын
    • Yes

      @lazerblazer528@lazerblazer5283 жыл бұрын
  • Jokes on you, I'm part of the 3.3% of people who have a school project on this

    @thecringygamer_4656@thecringygamer_46564 жыл бұрын
    • Oh lord tachanka, we are not worthy for your existence

      @lyhi2951@lyhi29514 жыл бұрын
    • Lucky

      @blade_w1nn1ng21@blade_w1nn1ng214 жыл бұрын
    • TheCringyGamer _ 0.3%* he said 99.7%

      @adiljaved1330@adiljaved13304 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @zanefuehrer962@zanefuehrer9624 жыл бұрын
    • He said 99.7% of people don't do this in their lifetime, so 0.3% of people do this in their lifetime.

      @shrimp9760@shrimp97604 жыл бұрын
  • Mark, your buddy, Al, in Texas said "I came up with this idea back in 1991", but my high school physics teacher was doing mousetrap cars in the mid 1980's. Some of my classmates were using vinyl 33 1/3 LP records as wheels. (Yes, there was recorded music media long before .mp3 and CDs.)

    @inhoopster8761@inhoopster87612 жыл бұрын
    • I was thinking the same thing. I entered a winning mousetrap care in a science Olympiad in 1990 and my Industrial Arts teacher had been doing them before then for years.

      @MumPyro@MumPyro6 ай бұрын
  • your has a bigger wheel, so a bigger scirconference, so just spin faster if the rotation force is aplied to the center of it and the theet are for more friction

    @petitloup5059@petitloup50597 ай бұрын
  • Holy cow! Thank you for another amazing video. I have two sons studying engineering at Utah State and we all love your videos. We're going to have to have a family mousetrap car competition. and then AFTER that, I'll show them the video. Keep up the great work.

    @parklloyd6690@parklloyd66906 жыл бұрын
  • 1:25 Dang, dat gurl is savage.. Edit: OMG Thank you soooo much for all the likes

    @sebastianoussoren8135@sebastianoussoren81355 жыл бұрын
    • SHE'S ONLY 15 YOU DISGUSTING MAN

      @benandrews7403@benandrews74035 жыл бұрын
    • Sergeant Hale u do know what savage is right

      @bfart5770@bfart57705 жыл бұрын
    • Don't like your own comment. ALSO I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. DON'T TRY TURNING THE TABLES YOUNG MAN.

      @benandrews7403@benandrews74035 жыл бұрын
    • the Term savage is used as kind of like a meme type thing nowadays but it just means that someone doing an act which isn’t very brutal but if seen in a different angle can still be considered as brutal,thus the term savage

      @mohamedharith6287@mohamedharith62875 жыл бұрын
    • @@benandrews7403 how is that disgusting?

      @lezhaosicne6387@lezhaosicne63875 жыл бұрын
  • I love how cute the cars are!❤❤

    @yangxue1694@yangxue16942 күн бұрын
  • Bro's filming in rain.. And I didn't notice the first time.. That is dedication! Keep the lessons going! I love your videos!!

    @Chandrius4263@Chandrius4263 Жыл бұрын
  • The street fighter transition at 4:27 is amazing. Thank you for putting in that extra effort into your videos!

    @Kevin-rc5ec@Kevin-rc5ec5 жыл бұрын
  • Can we get a R.I.P in the chat for Mark's ice cream

    @mattfromwiisports2293@mattfromwiisports22934 жыл бұрын
    • RIP

      @lnx-retr0438@lnx-retr04384 жыл бұрын
    • RIP

      @playstation6977@playstation69774 жыл бұрын
    • Rest in peace

      @Ripsawman0@Ripsawman04 жыл бұрын
    • RIP

      @calebyao.@calebyao.4 жыл бұрын
    • Rip

      @hossclark2889@hossclark28894 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you we are about to have a science class on this and a compitition

    @meditzprod7785@meditzprod77852 жыл бұрын
  • should have watched this 2 years ago. We made one in middle school. One of the best ones in my class was actually built from paper! (he used paper tubes and idk about the wheels, its been 2 years after all) mine had a replaceable mouse trap and cd wheels and it did pretty well

    @enderlemon890@enderlemon8903 жыл бұрын
  • i just love how she punches the icecream out of marks hand

    @ralph7349@ralph73496 жыл бұрын
    • questacon 😇

      @questionmark3073@questionmark30735 жыл бұрын
    • More of a slap but......

      @cardmusician5355@cardmusician53553 жыл бұрын
  • I look forward to working with you! We’re going to have so much fun!

    @RickSmithJr@RickSmithJr6 жыл бұрын
    • Rick Smith, Jr. spoiler alert?

      @EnzoM@EnzoM6 жыл бұрын
    • I

      @markus9621@markus96216 жыл бұрын
    • ??

      @danpriest962@danpriest9623 жыл бұрын
  • 0:31 Mark: Wait wait wait, don't leave. Me: I wasn't going to-

    @TheKnockOffTRex@TheKnockOffTRex6 ай бұрын
  • this also works in car engines, if you have a longer piston you will produce a lot of torque and if the piston is short then you would be able to make the engine rpm higher

    @SC-kd5ln@SC-kd5ln2 жыл бұрын
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