Marble And Ramp Experiment

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.

Marble and ramp experiment.

Experimenting with forces grade level 5 overview statement in this activity students use a marble and a paper dra. In this experiment the inclined plane makes work easier by allowing gravity without any help from you to move the marble down the ramp. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. Note these textbooks must be the same mass and have the same dimensions.

It should be at least two and one. Wooden ramp with beveled end and a channel down the center. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of energy mass velocity and momentum using ramps rulers and cardboard tubes. 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.

Students will use a marble ramp laboratory experiment to demonstrate an understanding of work and energy. I have seen various hardware stores and building supply s. It is called shelf bracket tracks or shelf uprights. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out.

Lengths of textured fabric cut to fit the ramp cloth towel paper towel foil sandpaper wax paper cling wrap foam. In one of your experiments you will roll a marble down a ramp to provide an initial horizontal velocity. Track material is easy to work with and cheap. An example of potential energy is a stretched out rubber band the farther you stretch it the more potential energy it has.

Use 1 d kinematics to predict the velocity of the ball xi at the bottom of the ramp. Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object. Suppose you start the marble at rest xe 0 m s and it travels a distance of d.