<p>hey everyone
this might be a stupid question, but has anyone done this physics spaghetti tower thing? It's our trimester final and graded on a CURVE!! omg
I have some ideas but im not sure
please give me some input/advice?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>i didn't know what this was, so i googled it and it made so much more sense...i was envisioning a pile of floppy cooked spaghetti as tower-building material...</p>
<p>ok i got this for you friend. you look up Structural integrity, which i did cause i have the same project, and you'll find that triangle based pyramid. make one of those and re-enforce it with double peices if you can as much as possible. i added a little support in the middle in the form of a beem coming up from the dead center, which went down to a marshmellow joint, which then had 3 small peices sticking out connecting to the middle of the base sides.</p>
<p>Ugh. I had to build the spaghetti bridge, which is probably a lot different, but my advice is to just always remember to think in 3 dimensions.</p>
<p>we just built pasta towers for my ap physics class. i used some sort of pasta thats long, thin, and tubular. it's probably not quite a centimeter in diameter. it had to hold 10,000 kg. but weigh less than 350 grams. mine held about 8000 kg and weighed 347 grams. it would've held more weight, but my glue didn't hold, so the platform holding the weights fell apart and the weights slid off. haha.</p>
<p>I took a CTY Engineering class, and one of the things we had to make was a spaghetti tower. We got to use marshmellows as an adhesive though...</p>
<p>i got a B.,.. o well better than the F i thought i was going to get.
17/20
yeaup!</p>