Marble Ramp And Acceleration Lab

Mark the distance.

Marble ramp and acceleration lab.

To confirm this velocity with an independent measurement you can use a photogate. This video shows a marble accelerating down a ramp made from two meter sticks resting on 1 textbook. By rolling a steel marble down a ramp and measuring its horizontal range you can calculate the marble s launch velocity. A traditional fishbowl is a teaching strategy where students contribute to a discussion or activity.

Although the marble only has a change in speed and not direction we can still determine that acceleration occurred due to the definition. Modeling the marble ramp lab. 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.

Determine how many centimeters the marble rolled in 5 seconds. The steepness of the incline can be measured by the ratio of height to length. I choose a fishbowl to introduce this activity instead of a lecture or a recipe lab because i want students. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

We marked this ramp at each distance in which we were starting the ball from. 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. Bell ringer marble ramp lab. 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.

Roll the marble from the top of the plank. In this lab we measured the acceleration of a rolling ball down a ramp at a specific height. Because the marble gains speed as it travels down the ramp it has acceleration. In this part the distance rolled down the ramp and the angle of slope are both variables.

Measure the total length of the ramp and record in data table b as l. Rate of acceleration is proportional to incline of ramp.