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    Science Project Proposal: Hydraulic Crane

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    This document describes how to build a simple hydraulic crane model using easily available materials. The model uses two syringes connected by plastic tubing filled with vegetable oil to demonstrate how hydraulic systems transmit and magnify forces. Pushing down on one syringe's plunger causes the other syringe's plunger to rise, showing how hydraulic systems can generate mechanical advantage by trading force for distance moved. The model is proposed as a science fair project or classroom activity to illustrate the principles of common hydraulic technologies.

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    Science Project Proposal: Hydraulic Crane

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    This document describes how to build a simple hydraulic crane model using easily available materials. The model uses two syringes connected by plastic tubing filled with vegetable oil to demonstrate how hydraulic systems transmit and magnify forces. Pushing down on one syringe's plunger causes the other syringe's plunger to rise, showing how hydraulic systems can generate mechanical advantage by trading force for distance moved. The model is proposed as a science fair project or classroom activity to illustrate the principles of common hydraulic technologies.

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    This document describes how to build a simple hydraulic crane model using easily available materials. The model uses two syringes connected by plastic tubing filled with vegetable oil to demonstrate how hydraulic systems transmit and magnify forces. Pushing down on one syringe's plunger causes the other syringe's plunger to rise, showing how hydraulic systems can generate mechanical advantage by trading force for distance moved. The model is proposed as a science fair project or classroom activity to illustrate the principles of common hydraulic technologies.

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    Science Project Proposal: Hydraulic Crane

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    Daphne Ventenilla
    This document describes how to build a simple hydraulic crane model using easily available materials. The model uses two syringes connected by plastic tubing filled with vegetable oil to demonstrate how hydraulic systems transmit and magnify forces. Pushing down on one syringe's plunger causes the other syringe's plunger to rise, showing how hydraulic systems can generate mechanical advantage by trading force for distance moved. The model is proposed as a science fair project or classroom activity to illustrate the principles of common hydraulic technologies.

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    HYDRAULIC CRANE

    SCIENCE PROJECT PROPOSAL


    HYDRAULIC CRANE

    Hydraulic systems use pressurized liquid to transmit and magnify forces. A


    simple model of a hydraulic actuator can be constructed with easily available materials
    and used to demonstrate the principles of such systems. You may have seen
    hydraulic actuators on construction equipment or other heavy machinery in the form of
    large "rams" – cylinders that extend and contract to manipulate the shovels or blades
    of the machine. This model may be used in support of a science fair or class project
    along with a poster or paper explaining how it operates, or simply as a fun activity to
    stimulate understanding of a common technology.

    MATERIALS
    1. Glue of any kind (fast drying preferably)

    2. 60x60 cm 6mm MDF sheet

    3. 2 x syringe 20 ml.

    4. 5 mm. plastic tubing

    5. dowel 8 mm. width

    6. string

    7. Gaffer's tape

    1. Prepare Your Materials


    Get a 20 ml syringe, a 100 ml syringe, some rubber tubing and vegetable oil. The
    syringes can be purchased at most pharmacies, while the rubber tubing is available at
    aquarium shops. Remove the needles from the syringes. The needles will not be
    needed for the construction of the model.

    2. Fill the Syringes


    Fill the syringes half full with vegetable oil. Do this by dipping the nozzle of the syringe
    into a bowl of vegetable oil and slowly pulling the plunger until the barrel of the syringe
    is approximately half full. Make sure that there are no bubbles in the barrel of the
    syringe, as this can affect the operation of the model. If bubbles form when you are
    filling the syringes, push the oil out of the syringe and redo the filling process.
    HYDRAULIC CRANE

    3. Attach the Tubing


    Insert the nozzle of the larger syringe into one end of the rubber tubing. If you have
    difficulty getting the end of the tubing to fit over the syringe nozzles, submerge the
    ends of the tubing in hot water for a few minutes. This will expand the rubber tubing
    and also make it softer and more malleable.Push down on the large syringe's plunger
    until oil nearly reaches the end of the tubing, leaving just a centimeter or so of tubing
    empty so that you have something to hold on to. Don't push down on the plungers
    when inserting the nozzles of the syringes into the tubing or oil may be pushed out of
    the syringes, creating quite a mess.Now attach the free end of the tubing to the nozzle
    of the smaller syringe in the same way.

    4. Test Your Simple Hydraulic System


    Operate the completed model by pushing down on one or the other plunger. The other
    plunger will rise. When you push down the plunger of the smaller syringe, the plunger
    of the larger one will rise a smaller distance but with greater force. Because its barrel
    has a larger diameter and therefore a larger volume, the (incompressible) fluid moves
    its plunger through a smaller distance. But because it moves over a smaller distance it
    generates a larger force. This is a "mechanical advantage," similar to how pulling the
    rope of a pulley with small force for a large distance can lift a large weight a small
    distance.

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