Question:
"The Challenge of the Moving Bottle"?
AllyourBaseisBelongtoUs
2010-01-04 13:10:46 UTC
This is the title of my science homework that i need to do over the vacation. What i need to do is to roll a 2 liter soda bottle (or larger) atleast 360 degrees without doing any funny stuff (such as manually rolling the bottle or using a fan and such). There is one exception however. I can use magnets, but if you can, please give me a detailed response of how to roll a bottle without magnets. My way of rolling this 2 liter soda bottle is to glue 2 or 3 heavy non-magnetic masses on the inside of the bottle equidistant from each other. To make this roll, I place the bottle favoring two of the masses and let physics do the rest. But I've been told that putting 2 or 3 masses equidistant from each other creates a balance which will make the bottle harder to roll a 360+. To minimized friction, I've put oil on the outside of the bottle. If anybody needs more information, I would be glad to give you some. And as a note, i dont want things to be too complicated (my teacher hates it when something complicated could be explained in simple terms) so that i could make this experiment easier. and also, the bottle HAS to be rolling on a flat surface, not in the air or on a decline.
Three answers:
OldPilot
2010-01-04 14:14:18 UTC
Build a big "Spool Tractor."



http://circle.adventist.org/files/nadscience5-8/Print%20Materials/ACTIVITIES/PS-SPOOL%20TRACTOR.pdf



Punch a hole in the bottom of the bottle

Thread a big rubber band though the hole and out the neck

Put a popsicle stick on the rubber band, then pull the rubber band tight though the hole.

Knot it. Put a match stick though it and glue it to the bottle

When the glue is set, wind up the popsicle stick and let'er go.



Lost kid technology. I built hundreds of these when I was a kid.





You do not need or want oil in the bottle.
Kevin B
2010-01-04 13:18:16 UTC
well you can glue a big mass, then at a chosen distance a magnet, then a big mass, then a magnet, etc.



Then idk how you could do this but place magnets on the flatt surface so it goes like this:

Magnet is attracted to magnet, then the big mass makes the bottle roll some more, then the other magnet is attracted again, then another mass makes the bottle move more, etc
2010-01-04 21:45:46 UTC
dam chris, is this u, ive got no idea whatsoever to solve this sht


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