Marble Ramp And Acceleration Lab

Physics 31210 lab 2 projectile motion introduction.

Marble ramp and acceleration lab. Modeling the marble ramp lab. Mark the distance. 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. Bell ringer marble ramp lab.

In this part the distance rolled down the ramp and the angle of slope are both variables. This video shows a marble accelerating down a ramp made from two meter sticks resting on 1 textbook. A traditional fishbowl is a teaching strategy where students contribute to a discussion or activity. Measure the total length of the ramp and record in data table b as l.

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. Because the marble gains speed as it travels down the ramp it has acceleration. Determine how many centimeters the marble rolled in 5 seconds. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

Set up your lab station as follows. I choose a fishbowl to introduce this activity instead of a lecture or a recipe lab because i want students. 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. By rolling a steel marble down a ramp and measuring its horizontal range you can calculate the marble s launch velocity.

To confirm this velocity with an independent measurement you can use a photogate. Although the marble only has a change in speed and not direction we can still determine that acceleration occurred due to the definition. We marked this ramp at each distance in which we were starting the ball from. Rate of acceleration is proportional to incline of ramp.

The steepness of the incline can be measured by the ratio of height to length. Record your distance in the data table.