kamil+molwani

My name is Kamil Molwani, and I attend ARJ. At this point, I'm number five according to my transcript and i will try to become atleast number three before I graduate in 2012. However, after i graduate i would like to attend Georgia State University and major in Mechanical Engineering.

When you are riding a mutli-speed bicycle up a steep hill, what do you do? I shift gear in order to get more power with the same amount of effort. Sometimes when a standard shift or four-wheel drive vehicle is being driven up a steep incline, the driver will downshift or engage the four-wheel drive in order to gain more torque.

Can you think of other examples where force or torque is changed to make a task easier? The torque of an electrical mixer is changed depending on what you want to mix. The torque applied to a wrench is increased as the bolt being tightened becomes tighter. The torque applied to the drill must be sufficient to turn the drill through the material.

Rover As I, Kamil Molwani, was building my rover design, on 03/21/11, I was not successful in making my design to work properly. The problem that my design had was the back wheels because I end up cutting the back wheels of the rover, which were given in a square shape, into an oval shape. The result of the oval shaped wheels was that they made the rover jump and not move properly, so to solve that problem I had to give the back wheels of the rover a circular shape. Also, there was another problem, which dealt with the straw. The straw that was provided to me was a little too thick for the lifesaver candies, which were my rover's front wheels, to be put in, and even though I was able to put the lifesavers on the straw, they were not able to rotate. To solve the problem of the straw, my instructor provided the class with new straws, which were smaller than the ones provided before. As a result, after making these modifications, my rover was able to move.

Kicking Machine Today, on 03/23/11, I, Kamil Molwani, was assigned to construct a kicking machine. The main purpose of the kicking machine was to put a golf ball into a cup by either hitting it with a pendulum, with a rubber band, or a combination of both. The method that I chose to go with was the pendulum method. I started constructing my kicking machine in class but was not able to finish building it because my pendulum did not work, in other words my design failed. In class, I was able to make the stand of the pendulum and was also able to construct the pendulum, but when I put them both together and tested it, the design did not work. One reason why my pendulum design did not work because I was not able to put the rubber band, which connected the pendulum to the pendulum stand, correctly. However, I will modify my design tomorrow, 03/24/11, so can perform its function properly.

Today, 03/24/11, I, Kamil Molwani, continued working on my kicking machine. Today, I had planned to make modifications to my kicking machine, but instead I end up building a whole different kicking machine design. Yesterday, I had build a kicking machine that used a pendulum and a rubber band to accomplish the goal of putting the golf ball into a plastic cup 24 inches or 2 feet away, which did not turn out well, so today I build a new kicking machine that only used a rubber band. After I tested the new kicking machine, it did accomplish its purpose, and was able release the golf ball and put it into a plastic cup.