Segway Technology – What’s Newton got to do with it?

Name ______________________________

Go to www.swcit.org/warren/Phi_Sci_assignments.htm for video.

1. What basically was the competition at the beginning of the video about?

2. What is the “underpinning of the tools of engineering”?

3. What is unique about the IBOT he developed?

4. What is a Segway designed for?

5. How many gyroscopes does a segway have?

6. When does a pendulum have its highest velocity?

7. What is the only thing a driver has to do to get the segway to go backwards?

8. What does it cost to operate a segway for 1 day?