Thames & Kosmos 620376 User manual

EXPERIMENT MANUAL

Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Pfizerstr. 5-7, 70184 Stuttgart, Germany | +49 (0) 711 2191-0 | www.kosmos.de

Thames & Kosmos, 301 Friendship St., Providence, RI, 02903, USA | 1-800-587-2872 | www.thamesandkosmos.com

Thames & Kosmos UK Ltd, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 2QZ, United Kingdom | 01580 212000 | www.thamesandkosmos.co.uk

620376-03-270516

No. Description Qty. Item No.

13-hole rod 13 7026-W10-Q2S2

23-hole cross rod, orange 8 7026-W10-X1O

33-hole dual rod, gray 2 7061-W10-R1S3

43-hole wide rounded rod, black 4 7404-W10-C1D

5 5-hole rod B, gray 6 7413-W10-K2S2

6 5-hole rod C, orange 9 7413-W10-K3O1

7 5-hole dual rod B, gray 2 7026-W10-S2S2

8 5-hole dual rod C, gray 4 7026-W10-S3S3

97-hole wide rounded rod, black 4 7404-W10-C2D

10 7-hole flat rounded rod, black 4 7404-W10-C3D

11 11-hole rod 2 7413-W10-P1D

12 15-hole dual rod 2 7413-W10-H1D

13 Square frame 2 7026-W10-T2D

14 Short frame 2 7413-W10-I1D

15 90-degree converter X, gray 6 7061-W10-J1S3

16 90-degree converter Y, gray 6 7061-W10-J2S3

17 Axle, 35 mm 2 7413-W10-O1D

18 Axle, 70 mm 2 7061-W10-Q1D

19 Axle, 100 mm 2 7413-W10-L2D

20 Tube, 20 mm 12 7400-W10-G2D

21 Body plate left, orange 3 7392-W10-L1O

22 Body plate right, orange 3 7392-W10-L2O

23 Body plate left, black 1 7392-W10-L1TD

24 Body plate right, black 1 7392-W10-L2TD

25 Side plate 4 7392-W10-M1O

26 Small body plate A, black 4 7392-W10-J1D

No. Description Qty. Item No.

27 Small body plate A, orange 2 7392-W10-J1O

28 Large body plate 2 7398-W10-C1TD

29 Small body plate B 2 7398-W10-C2TD

30 Short anchor pin, blue 59 7344-W10-C2B

31 Anchor pin, red 42 7061-W10-C1R

32 Long button pin 4 7061-W10-E1TY

33 Two-to-one converter 47061-W10-G1D

34 Anchor pin lever 1 7061-W10-B1Y

35 9-hole rod 2 7407-W10-C1D

36 Tire 4 7407-W10-A1D

37 Wheel 4 7407-W10-B1W

38 Small body plate C, left 2 7407-W10-D2TD

39 Small body plate C, right 2 7407-W10-D3TD

40 Flat body plate 2 7407-W10-D1TD

41 4-hole flat rounded rod, orange 2 7407-W10-F2O

42 4-ball joint 2 7407-W10-F1O

43 U rod 4 7407-W10-E1O

44 IR steering motor box 1 7407-W85-A

45 4-channel IR remote control unit 1 7407-W85-C-US

46 4-channel battery box 1 7407-W85-D-US

47 Adjustable gearbox 17407-W85-B

48 Electrostatic sticker sheet 1R20#7407-US

49 Green gear for gearbox 17407-W10- O1G

50 Blue gear for gearbox 2 7407-W10-O2B

51 Orange gear for gearbox 17407-W10-O3O

52 Red gear for gearbox 17407-W10-O4R

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What’s inside your experiment kit:

Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check oﬀ

1 2

17 1815 16 19 2120

22 23 25 27 28

43 44 45 46 47 48

49 50 51 52

29 30 31

32 33 34 35 36 39 4037 38 41

› › › KIT CONTENTS

GOOD TO KNOW! If you are missing any

parts, please contact Thames & Kosmos

customer service.

US: techsupport@thamesandkosmos.com

UK: techsupport@thamesandkosmos.co.uk

You will also need:

2 x AAA batteries (1.5-volt, type AAA/LR03) and

3 x AA batteries (1.5-volt, type AA/LR6)

3 7 8

4910 11

13 14

24 26

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Safety Information ........................................................... Inside front cover

Kit Contents...................................................................................................... 

Tips and Tricks ................................................................................................ 

Table of Contents............................................................................................ 

Introduction

Engineering Diﬀerent Cars for Diﬀerent Uses .......................................... 

Race Cars ........................................................................................................ 

Build a model of a sleek race car and a dragster to race around a track.

Learn about the physics of cars and drag racing.

The models:

Sleek race car......................................................................................................... 5

Dragster .................................................................................................................16

Luxury Cars................................................................................................... 

Construct a luxury super car and learn about how the gears, engines,

and drive shafts of cars work.

The model:

Super car ............................................................................................................... 22

Classic Cars ................................................................................................... 

Build a hot rod and a hot hatchback, and learn about some famous cars

throughout history. Then learn about engineering a race car and build a

speedy go-kart.

The models:

Hot rod....................................................................................................................32

Hot hatchback......................................................................................................40

Go-kart .................................................................................................................. 47

Modern Cars.................................................................................................. 

Build a pickup truck and a truck to move cargo around. Then build a

buggy to drive up hills.

The models:

Pickup truck ..........................................................................................................52

Truck........................................................................................................................58

Buggy......................................................................................................................64

Future Car....................................................................................................... 

Construct an electric car and learn about some of the features that cars

of the future might have.

The model:

Electric car.............................................................................................................73

Publisher’s Information ...................................................Inside back cover

TIP!

You will ﬁnd additional

information in the “Check it out”

sections on pages , , , ,

, , , , and .

TIP!

Above each set of assembly

instructions, you will ﬁnd a red bar:

››› It shows you the diﬃculty level for

the model’s assembly:

easy medium hard

› › › TABLE OF CONTENTS

Remote-Control Machines: Custom Cars

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SLEEK RACE CAR

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Stickers

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EXPERIMENT 1

Done!

Race Cars

HERE’S HOW

Have a friend or family member

set up a race course in a room in

your house. He or she can gather

various objects, such as small

cardboard boxes (e.g., tea boxes

and matchboxes), toys, and

empty cans, and place them

around the room. Set up a start

and ﬁnish line. Turn on your

model and race around the track

as fast as you can! Take turns

timing each other and see who

can drive the model car around

the track the fastest.

Building a race track

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CHECK IT OUT

ACCELERATION

Acceleration is a change in the

velocity of an object. That means that

the object could be speeding up,

slowing down, or changing direction

and it would be accelerating. The time

it takes for a car to go from 0 to 60

miles per hour is a common measure

of a car’s ability to accelerate.

FORCE

When a car turns a corner sharply,

accelerates, or decelerates, you feel a push

or a pull on your body. This is because the

car is exerting a force on you. A force is

necessary to make an object move and is

proportional to the amount of mass and

the acceleration of an object. It is very

important for the engineers who design

cars to understand the forces that a car

experiences when in motion. Based on your

experiences, what forces do you think act

on a car when it is moving?

WORK

The way that physicists deﬁne work is diﬀerent than the

common usage of the word. Work is when a force

causes a displacement in the same direction as the

motion of an object. For example, if you were walking

around at a steady velocity with a box in your arms you

would not be performing work. This is because the force

required to hold up the box points in the upward

direction, while the displacement from your walking

around is in the horizontal direction. However, if you

were to push a box along the ﬂoor or lift a box up, you

would be performing work.

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The Physics of Cars

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