Mousetrap Cars: A Teachers Guide

By Chris Cotter, Alden J. Balmer, Mike Harnisch

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965667405
• ISBN13: 9780965667401
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Doc Fizzix
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Catch physics with mousetrap cars!

You can learn how to build a mousetrap car and you can also learn physics concepts by reading and using this book. The physics concepts covered in the book include friction, inertia, force, and acceleration, momentum, strength, center of mass, rotational inertia, energy, and torque. The book is designed to help you experience the process of design. It helps you take your ideas and apply them to produce a working model. Building mousetrap cars is problem solving with two main ingredients: (1) you don't know what problems will be encountered; and (2) more than one solution might work. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to build a mousetrap car or learn some fundamental physics concepts!

Need More Like This!

In one word, EXCELLENT! This book is easy to read and fun. The artwork and graphics are great. I bought this book because my son had to make a mousetrap car for his science class. This book was FILLED with ideas and lots of how-to pictures. Having this book really relieved my stress. Doc Fizzix really knows his stuff and I am very thankful that he wrote this book. We followed one set of plans that was in the back of the book and then made some small modifications. My son's car won first place in the class.

GREAT BOOK!

This book has been extremely helpful to my students and me as we design and race mousetrap cars. It focuses on the physics behind how the cars work and is written in an easy-to-read style and has great diagrams. The hints were also quite useful. The guy from San Anselmo must have reviewed another mousetrap car book since this book has virtually no history in it! In short, if you need an excellent source for building mousetrap cars and desire a thorough understanding of the physics behind how they work, this book is for you.

The only book to read for this project!

This book was extreamly helpful in my students mouse trap car projects. I suggest anyone interested in mouse trap cars use this book. I will continue to use other books by the author in the future.

THE BEST BOOK!

This is the best book i ever read. I had awsome ideas for making mouse trap cars! I made one using the ideas from the book and my mousetrap car won! I love this book and i advise everyone that wants to know who to make one buy this book!