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Why I love cars

The four-wheeled Artemis Jr. prototype rover, topped with a solar array, driving across a grass field beside the Operations and Checkout Building. Real NASA photograph used on the Ellis Abel Learns "Why I Love Cars" page.
The four-wheeled Artemis Jr. prototype rover, topped with a solar array, driving across a grass field beside the Operations and Checkout Building. NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis · Public domain
  • Thousands of parts and they all have to agree.
  • It turns fuel or charge into going somewhere.
  • When it makes a noise, the noise means something.

What it really is

A car converts stored energy into motion through a long chain of parts.

Three things to try today

  1. Find where the energy goes in.
  2. Find where the motion comes out.
  3. Name three parts in between.

For the grown-up reading this

Input, output, and the chain between. That framing works on any machine.

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