This wooden cart was designed to show the relation between a force exerted on an object and the velocity of that object. It was simple and inexpensive, made from short pieces of 2" x 4" and three roller skate wheels. This example was made by Grisell and Kaiel, students at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Oregon, in the early 1960s.
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