The activity entitled “Air-powered Car” enables the students to learn about energy, its types, and its conversion from one form…
The activity entitled a rubber band-powered car enables the students to learn about energy, its types, and its conversion from one form to another form. It also helps them to understand basic vehicle design, its working, and how rubber potential energy can be used as fuel.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed: it is only transformed. There are many different forms of energy, including kinetic energy (the energy of motion), potential energy (energy that is considered stored because of an object’s position), mechanical energy (energy that performs work), and thermal (heat) energy. Kinetic and potential energy are often paired together in simple demonstrations, like dropping a book, jumping on a trampoline, or building cool machines like rubber band cars.
