Marble Velocity Lab

For example challenge students to figure out how long it takes a marble to travel three feet on a ramp.

Marble velocity lab. Record your distance in the data table. After thirty minutes pass i ask for a few student volunteers to share their experience with the lab with the class. When the initial velocity is separated into x and y components equations 1a 2b give the relationships between the motion variables separately for x and y. The objective of this lab is to find the x velocity y velocity y distance horizontal distance and the time.

Ask one student to release the marble on a ramp while the other student records the length of time it takes the marble to reach a desired mark. Calculate the average velocity of the marble through the liquid. Rulers marble we will construct the ramp and set up the photogate and perform the experiment to get the data. Physics 31210 lab 2 study i.

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. How can you tell which liquids are thicker and which are thinner using the velocity. Set up your lab station as follows. The momentum of the one marble rolling down the ramp before the collision should be equal to the sum of the momentums of the marbles after the collision.

The marble coming into the collision is called the inbound marble in this laboratory. Range and initial velocity of the ball. The distance is the height of the liquid and the time will be the average time calculated in step 6. You are going to launch the marble from the same height 10 times and measure its horizontal range.

Determine how many centimeters the marble rolled in 5 seconds. When the rubber band is released and pours out all that energy it had stored up or when the marble begins to fly down the inclined plane that energy is kinetic energy. Velocity distance time. Repeat the experiment testing other liquids.

Help students discover the basics of velocity using marbles and ramps. Another example is a marble teetering at the top of an inclined plane. Kinetic energy is the energy of an object in motion. One marble at rest is hit by another marble rolling down the ramp.

Roll the marble from the top of the plank. Other students find the velocity of the marble and determine the kinetic energy of the marble and compare the distance the paper sail travels to the kinetic energy of the marble as it hits the sail. A marble is rolled down a ruler to achieve a velocity at the bottom. Using the kinematic equations you can calculate the marble s initial velocity as it leaves the table.

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