How To Crush A Peanut Shell
By Harrison
Do you know that you can take a simple idea like cracking a shell of a peanut and it can be turned into a very, very, very complicated thing that may take longer than it would take to just do it the simple way? The first step to my machine is the peanut rolls down an inclined plane into a car and the science concept is a thing in motion will stay in motion unless stopped by another force. The second step is the peanut is in the car and rolls to a lever and the science concept is, there can’t be too much friction or else you will not be able to move the car and, if you can not move the car, you will need to put in more force. The third step is the lever throws the peanut onto another inclined plane and the science concept is the fulcrum is in the middle so to lift one thing you will need a thing that weighs more than my peanut. The fourth step is the peanut rolls down the inclined plane and lands in a trebuchet and the science concept is a thing in motion will stay in motion unless stopped by another force. The fifth thing is the trebuchet throws the peanut onto the inclined plane, the trebuchet is actually a type of a lever and the science concept is potential energy is turned in to kinetic energy. The sixth thing is the peanut rolls down another inclined plane to a lever and the science concept is a thing in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by another force. The seventh thing is the peanut gets thrown by the lever and lands on another lever and the science concept is potential energy is turned into kinetic energy faster than a blink of the human eye. The eighth step is the lever holds the pulley and the peanut crusher up and the science concept is an object staying still will stay still unless moved by another force. The last but not least step is the peanut is in the jaws of the wood attached by a pulley and in a matter of moments I will pull the string and the peanut shell will go Splat with a capital S and the science concept is when two things get pulled together at a certain velocity the force is so strong that anything that gets smashed will break into bits. That is all about my simple machine and how it works so it can smash peanuts.
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Jan. 19, 2004