Marble Roll Experiment

Roll the marble from the top of the ramp 1 metre from the bottom.

Marble roll experiment.

They thought that the marbles in the middle would roll away. 35 blackline 3 marble roll experiment 3 record sheet 38 session 8 another look at averaging 39 teacher record sheet marble roll experiment 1 record sheet 43 session 9 finding average distances 44 teacher record sheet. Record the distance travelled from the end of the ramp for each trial. A small marble.

Conduct the experiment. Young students often experiment with spheres to see how far they travel and how their motion affects other objects. I therefore disregarded the first roll 284 inches and rolled the marble a fourth time and then calculated the average for rolls two three and four. The cup should move measure the distance between where the cup ended up and where the cup started out.

How far did it go. Roll a marble through the tube and into the cup. Tip the container to roll the marble through the filler. One uncontrolled variable in my experiment was the floor because it wasn t exactly level.

Add fillers one at a time to the bin. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. Add a ball or marble. Explore the ability of each marble or ball to roll through each filler.

Carry out four trials marble releases from each starting position. Set up the following experiment. Observe other characteristics of and differences between the fillers and balls. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of.

For this experiment all you need is a ruler with a groove in the middle and some marbles. Sometimes near the end of a roll the marble would roll sharply to the side or stop and roll backwards. Release a marble from each of the five starting positions listed below. First we lined up three marbles in the middle and one marble at the edge.

The same principles apply to spheres as well a solid sphere such as a marble should roll faster than a hollow sphere such as an air filled ball regardless of their respective diameters. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer. I asked the boys what they thought would happen when i flicked the marble. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer.

Many teachers will satisfy and develop this curiosity with basic physics experiments involving marbles.