Marble Rolling Down A Ramp Experiment

Starting with the cylinder at rest use the stopwatch to measure the time to roll distance d 1 0 meter down the ramp.

Marble rolling down a ramp experiment.

Finally you push a marble on a ramp that represents the middle state between the first two in other words a ramp that is perfectly horizontal. It slows down as it goes up. For example rolls of tape markers plastic bottles different types of balls etcetera. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp.

In one of your experiments you will roll a marble down a ramp to provide an initial horizontal velocity. Set up the ramp with h 0 10 m above the table as shown in figure 1 2. But if you did this same experiment on a flat surface the marble would barely move right it is gravity that is pulling the ball down the ramp. In this part the distance d down the ramp is the variable while the angle of slope is constant.

In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out. Using a water clock galileo measured the time it took for the ball to roll a known distance down the inclined plane. After many trials he observed that the amount of time it took for the ball to roll down the entire length of the ramp was equal to double the amount of time it took for the same ball to only roll a quarter of the distance. Average calculated on rolls 2 3 and spare roll.

It should be at least two and one. I predict that the steeper the ramp the faster the marble will travel. Find more round objects spheres or cylinders that you can roll down the ramp. Use 1 d kinematics to predict the velocity of the ball xi at the bottom of the ramp.

Investigating the speed of a marble rolling down a variable ramp introduction in this experiment i am going to investigate the speed of a marble rolling down a variable ramp. So that marble teetering at the top of the ramp has the potential energy of gravity which is the force that will pull it down the ramp. It starts to roll faster and faster down the ramp right. My two hypotheses suggested that the surface texture of an inclined ramp would affect the distance traveled by a marble rolled down it and that the less textured the ramp s surface was the farther the marble would roll.

See making measurements above. The marble speeds up on its way down the ramp. Suppose you start the marble at rest xe 0 m s and it travels a distance of d.