On 21st-23rd of February Year 6 had a
talk with a man called Mr Cook; he spoke to us about Blood-Hound SSC.
Blood-Hound is designed to be the world’s fastest car going at a top speed of
1,050 mph; this can cover 4 football pitches in 2 seconds! In 2016 it will be
tested for a World Land Speed record.
Mr Cook spoke to us about how maths and science are involved
in the Blood-Hound project. We learnt this by using one of Newton’s laws: mass
x acceleration=force. Also we looked the amazing features of Blood-Hound and
all of the different types of Land Speed Record cars and how they are
different.
He presented for about 45 minutes before we went down to the
hall and got into groups of three or four. We were told to make a cardboard model of
the Blood-Hound using a pack we got with instructions and resources. We made
them by folding the cardboard into shape, then sticking the wooden axles down
for wheels the finally putting the straw into the balloon and sticking it down.
This took us around ten minutes to do. If our car was to be fast it would need
to be aero-dynamic like the Blood-Hound, we had to try to improve it. There were
lots of ways people done this like sticking a straw at the front or folding the
front over to make it pointy.
One of Newton’s laws is
a force must act on another force to make it move. Using that rule our cars
worked by blowing a straw which blew up the balloon, then the air from the
balloon deflated and came out the straw to make the car move. After our cars
were complete and had a test run, we had a big race. We had to nominate one member of our team to race our model.
Everyone had a brilliant afternoon!
By RH 6D
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