Today, My class was split into groups to build a structure out of newspaper and tape only. My group had very different ideas at first , but later we came into consensus that first we should make the structure's base as a shape of triangle. As we all know, triangle is the most stable geometric shape out of all shapes. One of the group members suggested to roll the newspaper to very thin and strong rolls, this can extend the length of the newspaper and also make the rolled newspapers stronger. When we used most of our newspapers to make rolls one of the problem because clear and that was when we are connecting the rolls, the connecting part seems to bend, to solve this problem, we had to cut the two edges of each of the rolls made up of newspapers and insert one into the other and tape it. When the three long rolls of newspaper were taped to the triangle base that we made previously, the rolls could not stand straight, this was because first it was too long, second it was too thin. Therefore, we inserted another triangle in the middle of the structure to additionally stabilize the structure. The outcome of the structure my group made was very successful, unfortunately we did not build the tallest, but it was close. The main physics applied in building a structure would be gravity (a force attracts the body towards the center of the earth.)
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Today, My class was split into groups to build a structure out of newspaper and tape only. My group had very different ideas at first , but later we came into consensus that first we should make the structure's base as a shape of triangle. As we all know, triangle is the most stable geometric shape out of all shapes. One of the group members suggested to roll the newspaper to very thin and strong rolls, this can extend the length of the newspaper and also make the rolled newspapers stronger. When we used most of our newspapers to make rolls one of the problem because clear and that was when we are connecting the rolls, the connecting part seems to bend, to solve this problem, we had to cut the two edges of each of the rolls made up of newspapers and insert one into the other and tape it. When the three long rolls of newspaper were taped to the triangle base that we made previously, the rolls could not stand straight, this was because first it was too long, second it was too thin. Therefore, we inserted another triangle in the middle of the structure to additionally stabilize the structure. The outcome of the structure my group made was very successful, unfortunately we did not build the tallest, but it was close. The main physics applied in building a structure would be gravity (a force attracts the body towards the center of the earth.)
