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Maximize performance and avoid disaster! Through race engineering, students learn to approach their car’s physical limits without exceeding them. Example activities include: SCIENCE. Traction: Use Newton’s Laws of Motion and a skid pad test to calculate the coefficient of friction. Use that value to find top speed around a curve. Science teachers can use supplemental lessons in their physical science and physics classrooms. TECHNOLOGY. Design on the FastTrack: Students use a leading 3-D CAD program, SolidWorks, to design a more aerodynamic car body or improve chassis parts. Spreadsheets are a must-have tool for most professionals and every FTRC team. ENGINEERING: When students apply math, science and technology to solve any FastTrack RC problem, they are engineering a solution. Using the new Mechanical Engineering Guide, students use 3D CAD to redesign and improve components of their FTRC cars. MATH. Track Layout & Math Modeling: Learning to make the tracks is an applied geometry lesson. To optimize any variable, teams build and use math models in the form of graphs and tables. Math teachers can use supplemental lessons in their algebra - calculus classrooms. |
New in 2009-10: PIT Now!
The momentous and very real issue must be tackled from two sides: Supply and Consumption. FTRC teams make their cars more efficient (consume less) and create a wind or solar charging station (sustainable energy supply) |
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Download STEM Examples: There are over 14 million ways to set up your FTRC car. Playing the technology lottery with trial and error will get you frustrated, faster. Make a mathematical model of your car's performance to narrow those 14 million down to a relative hand full of good options very quickly. |
FTRC
students tackle the same issues that U.S. policy and technology makers
face in transitioning from a fleet of gas guzzling to sustainable cars.
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