Marble Ramp And Acceleration Lab

Determine how many centimeters the marble rolled in 5 seconds.

Marble ramp and acceleration lab.

Although the marble only has a change in speed and not direction we can still determine that acceleration occurred due to the definition. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Set up your lab station as follows. In groups of 3 begin by picking one person to be the marble starter 1 person as distance marker watcher and one person as timer.

Our variables in which we used to determine speed was a little metal ball and a metal black ramp we placed the ball on to measure its speed. By rolling a steel marble down a ramp and measuring its horizontal range you can calculate the marble s launch velocity. Modeling the marble ramp lab. A traditional fishbowl is a teaching strategy where students contribute to a discussion or activity.

We marked this ramp at each distance in which we were starting the ball from. This video shows a marble accelerating down a ramp made from two meter sticks resting on 1 textbook. Because the marble gains speed as it travels down the ramp it has acceleration. In this lab we measured the acceleration of a rolling ball down a ramp at a specific height.

Rate of acceleration is proportional to incline of ramp. Roll the marble down the longer ramp for increasing amounts of time one second two seconds three seconds etc until the time the marble goes past the end of the ramp. This relates to the lab results because as we determined the marble gained speed as it advanced down the ramp. Roll the marble from the top of the plank.

Bell ringer marble ramp lab. Record your distance in the data table. I choose a fishbowl to introduce this activity instead of a lecture or a recipe lab because i want students. The steepness of the incline can be measured by the ratio of height to length.

In this part the distance rolled down the ramp and the angle of slope are both variables. Physics 31210 lab 2 projectile motion introduction.