This Solar Boat has been designed by LG / Korea and made available to us through the Dept. of Physics, Pune University, India. This is a pre-made kit. The heart is a solar panel attached to a toy motor with a worm gear. The motor spins when the sun shines on the solar panel. Place the motor in its casing. Then assemble the boat body which is made of Styrofoam. These two mounts have a hole where the main axle will come. In the front is the pilot. And this is the mount for the solar panel. This mount enables the solar panel to be tilted so as to catch the sun. Place the motor along the worm gear in place. Also place the solar panel on its mount. Place the axle with the gear in the middle and with two paddles on its ends. This is the entire assembly of the solar boat. The worm gear of the motor rotates the gear on the axle and which spins the paddles. The solar panel angle can be adjusted to face the sun. On placing in the sun the solar panel will provide the current to run the motor which in turn will spin the paddles. When the solar panel is in a shadow no electricity is produced and the motor. Place the solar boat in a big tub of water. In sunlight the boat will go forwards, but in shadow it will stop because the solar panel will not produce any electricity.
This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)
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Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar
Dubbed in Punjabi by Bipanmeesh Kaur, Delhi Public School, Ludhiana
Post time: Jan-06-2017