Objective: make the tallest and stable paper tower possible using limited sources
Unfortunately, our team was at 2nd place by just a few centimetres.
This activity was very exciting and i got to know more friends in the class. First, i recommended the method of rolling papers to make the high structure as possible. And Chung suggested to put the heavy bottom legs with walls surrounding the legs to make the structure stable. We could have made much taller structure if we did not waste too much newspapers at the bottom. Also, we should have thought about the mass of the news papers, so that we could roll different mass of papers and make the top the lightest. Overall, our structure was relatively well balanced compared to the small time we took and planned.
Physics of our structure:
- Heavy bottom that supports the weight of the top
- Surrounding wall allowed the legs to be more stable
- As it goes to the top, we tried to make it the lightest as possible
- The thinkness or thiness determines the stability of the tower relative to the mass of top
- The center of the gravity
What make stable?:
- The heavy bottom and the wall
- The thicker legs then the top
- The center of the gravity allows the structure to be straight
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