Thames & Kosmos Air-Power Turbo Racer handleiding

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Air is not nothing! That’s why a supposedly empty glass is not empty at

all — it’s full of air. It’s the same with the air tank of your car. Every time

you push the pump in, you add more air to the tank. You could even

measure this using a very sensitive scale. Your car is a tiny bit heavier

after you pump more air into it. Or as physicists would say: air has

mass, so pumping air into the car increases its mass. Without this

mass, the car wouldn’t go anywhere.

Your car is powered by a pneumatic system, which transforms

energy from pressurized air into motion. Pneumatics power many

mechanisms in the real world, like jackhammers.

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What you have built here is a real piston engine. The

mass of each tiny particle of air contributes to the

pressure inside the tank. By forcing more mass into the

tank, you increase the pressure — and therefore energy

— that is stored in the tank. The pressurized air pushes

on the piston, moving it downwards and driving the

wheels forward.

The same thing happens in cars with combustion

engines. The only difference is that the pressure is

generated by the combustion (burning) of fuel in a gas-

powered engine.

The concept of air-powered cars is as old as that of

conventional cars. Even though the technology has never

really caught on, research is still being carried out on it

today. New automobile models with compressed air

drives are constantly being developed, and the

technology has actually been used in trains.

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