Marble Launcher Experiment

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Marble launcher experiment.

An experiment in speed and motion. Use a strip of masking tape on the floor to make sure that the marble launcher is consistently placed in the same location. At which angle do you think the marble will travel the greatest distance. Be sure the light beam crosses the center of the barrel.

Launch the same marble 5 times and mark the impact point on the floor. Are experiments with the marble launcher. To create the marble launcher student will fold the index card lengthwise like a hot dog. State your answer to the question as a hypothesis remember i think is wimpy 2.

Students had to experiment to figure out velocity values and had to perform multiple trials in order to calculate other important values. For this experiment you will use angles from 0 to 80 degrees. At which angle do you think the marble will travel the greatest distance. November 7th 2011 abstract we created a projectile launcher out of materials found at home.

Using a projectile launcher to verify that increasing the initial angle increases the range thanoja gnanatheevam yadesh prashad saad saleem mai wageh and timothy yang. Benjamin ayida would give students. We had about two errors in our experiment. The photogate attaches to the tab on the end of the wood piece that supports the barrel.

Ap physics 1 students completed a difficult but practical marble launcher lab on tuesday oct 7. Place the marble in the launcher and pull the spring handle to the 4th slot this compresses the spring the same each trial. What is the independent variable the one thing that changes in this experiment. The marble was not dropped at the exact same point each time.

What is the dependent variable in this. Marble launcher demonstration for physical science and physics is a durable apparatus to study velocity acceleration and projectile motion. What is the independent variable in this experiment. The equations were not very accurate as to where the marble landed.

Make sure a lab partner is ready to catch the marble after it hits the. After each trial measure the horizontal distance traveled by the marble. Variables in an experiment stop and think 1. They were as off as 20 centimeters off the actual landing point.

The lab consisted of several different portions. State your answer to the question as a hypothesis remember i think is wimpy 2. 1 800 452 1261 live chat m f 7 30 am 5 00 pm cst 1 800 452 1261 live chat m f 7 30 am 5 00 pm cst. Variables in an experiment stop and think 1.

From this information students describe the accuracy and precision of the landings. Experiment taken from mcgraw hill 5th grade physical science textbook students create a marble launcher using an index card and use a marbel meter stick and timer to determine the speed in which it will travel. Using a plot of a set of landing sites on a coordinate plane students determine the average distance deviation of the sites to one another.