Rube Goldberg Machines and Forces Scavenger Hunt

Physical Science and Technology

Please WRITE your answers on a clean sheet of paper. Make sure your name is on the paper.

From the Rube Goldberg website: http://www.rube-goldberg.com

1. Who was Rube Goldberg?

2. What kinds of cartoons did Rube Goldberg draw?

3. Describe three examples of a Rube Goldberg machine (explain what the machine is intended to do, and list some of the parts of the machine and what they do).

4. What is the 2008 contest for a Rube Goldberg machine?

From the Physics Classroom website: http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/newtlaws/U2L2a.html

5. What is a force?

6. What are two examples of a contact force?

7. What are two examples of an action-at-a-distance force?

8. What is the unit for force?