Crash Box Challenge

A Hot Wheels car rolls down a ramp, crosses a short runway past photogate A, and crashes into a box you design. The box (car inside) skids to a stop. Calibrate with the photogates, find the pattern, then predict the release point that lands the box’s leading edge in the target zone.

Side view

Gate A time
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Gate B time
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Skid distance d
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Set a release distance and press Release the car. Gate A times the car (its flag is its own length). Gate B times the 1.0 cm card on the box right after the crash.

Velocity–time, last run

Skid distance vs release distance (this box)

Run log

Copy data puts the log on your clipboard as tab-separated text that pastes straight into a spreadsheet.