Marble And Ramp Experiment

This experiment requires a few things.

Marble and ramp experiment.

Wooden ramp with beveled end and a channel down the center. Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object. In one of your experiments you will roll a marble down a ramp to provide an initial horizontal velocity. Suppose you start the marble at rest xe 0 m s and it travels a distance of d.

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. Use 1 d kinematics to predict the velocity of the ball xi at the bottom of the ramp. It should be at least two and one. 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. 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. Conserving energy have students explore potential and kinetic energy by releasing a marble on a simulated roller coaster. Experimenting with forces grade level 5 overview statement in this activity students use a marble and a paper dra.

An example of potential energy is a stretched out rubber band the farther you stretch it the more potential energy it has. Students will use a marble ramp laboratory experiment to demonstrate an understanding of work and energy. Track material is easy to work with and cheap. Lengths of textured fabric cut to fit the ramp cloth towel paper towel foil sandpaper wax paper cling wrap foam.

I have seen various hardware stores and building supply s. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of energy mass velocity and momentum using ramps rulers and cardboard tubes. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out.