Team Emel

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This is the Team Emel Ball Drop page!

Information

On Friday, September 7th, at 7:00, we'll be meeting to work on our ball drop.

- Andrew

Shall I write up our list of ideas that we had before we decided on our final design? and who took pictures during construction? we need those, too... :) - Kara

Team Members

Project Design and Initial Ideas

Let's put some sketches here guys! If you end up with an enormous picture, what you can do is open up the original file just with the paint application. Scale it down to a more manageable size, and then crop down the white space to fit it. Then post it. We don't want enormous pictures of drawings. Keep 'em reasonable.

Final Design and Completed Not-a-Car

Below is a picture of the completed design.

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Things we wanted to include in our final design were: 1) Maximum surface area, 2) Balance, and 3) Strong initial velocity.

First, we maximized the surface area for the wings with the materials we had. We considered various other wing designs (see design process), but this one was ultimately chosen because it provided the most area for the wings.

Second, we considered different ways of attaching the ball to the plane, but it was difficult to attach the tennis ball without causing a massive imbalance. Ultimately, we cut the tennis ball in half (one half on the front, the other on the back) to equitably distribute its weight.

Third, we used the rubber band to create an initial launch of the glider. Rather than releasing it from rest, which would have questionable results at best, we decided that an initial launch would maximize our distance.

Results and Conclusions

Let's see what happens guys. We need our final distance here along with some discussion of... 1) What we were happy with 2) What went wrong/could have been improved 3) What we would change if we did it again (if anything)

The Name

While some say that the team names were generated at random, others speculate that the name Emel has some hidden meaning or reference. The leading theory is that Emel refers to the Muslim lifestyle magazine, seen in the below image. What relationship this has to Engineering is still unclear, but it is certain to be discovered sometime during the semester.


emel magazineEmel magazine.jpg See here for image location

Another possibility is that Emel simply refers to the Mary Lyons (ML) dorm where every member of the team currently lives; however, that theory seems skeptical at best, and there is little evidence to support it.