Rube Goldberg Project -Energy Transformation

A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple task in a complicated fashion, generally including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970).

QUESTION: Did Rube Goldberg invent the chain reaction contraption machine?

• YES

• NO

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Match the following

• The marble rolling down the track converts Gravitational Potential Energy into

• Kinetic energy.

• When the marble reaches the mousetrap, it causes stored elastic potential energy to convert into

• Kinetic Energy

• The closing of the mousetrap causes chemical energy stored in the battery to convert to

• Kinetic Energy

• When the weight crashes into the gong, the vibration is converted into

• Sound energy

• The string burns causing the weight to fall. As it falls, the weight is converted into

• electrical potential energy

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