When a rod is heated, the thermal energy transferred to the molecules of the rod causes them to vibrate faster. As the molecules near the heat source vibrate faster, they eventually transfer their excess energy to neighbouring molecules which also begin to vibrate faster. This continues until heat is distributed throughout the length of the rod.
The process described above is known as heat transfer by conduction.
A question you can gather from this experiment is figuring out the distance traveled by the car, and how far it went. A simple solve of X equation could be used.
It Depends on the order in which each object was plotted, if two connected points objects pass through the same set of three points, the shapes created by each point may be different