Marble And Ramp Experiment

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Marble and ramp experiment.

Big idea planning and carrying out investigations is an essential physics skill students can use to design a lab where potential energy is transferred into kinetic energy. I have seen various hardware stores and building supply s. Conserving energy have students explore potential and kinetic energy by releasing a marble on a simulated roller coaster. Track material is easy to work with and cheap.

Use 1 d kinematics to predict the velocity of the ball xi at the bottom of the ramp. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out. In this experiment the inclined plane makes work easier by allowing gravity without any help from you to move the marble down the ramp. It should be at least two and one.

Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object. Lengths of textured fabric cut to fit the ramp cloth towel paper towel foil sandpaper wax paper cling wrap foam. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. Explore activity 5 6 d.

In one of your experiments you will roll a marble down a ramp to provide an initial horizontal velocity. An example of potential energy is a stretched out rubber band the farther you stretch it the more potential energy it has. A meter stick two marble balls with the same mass two photogate timers a motion sensor a wooden ramp with a length of x meters and a few textbooks. This experiment requires a few things.

Suppose you start the marble at rest xe 0 m s and it travels a distance of d. Wooden ramp with beveled end and a channel down the center. Note these textbooks must be the same mass and have the same dimensions.