In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out.
Marble rolling down a ramp experiment.
It should be at least two and one.
Average calculated on rolls 2 3 and spare roll.
I predict that the steeper the ramp the faster the marble will travel.
In one of your experiments you will roll a marble down a ramp to provide an initial horizontal velocity.
In this part the distance d down the ramp is the variable while the angle of slope is constant.
It starts to roll faster and faster down the ramp right.
It slows down as it goes up.
Starting with the cylinder at rest use the stopwatch to measure the time to roll distance d 1 0 meter down the ramp.
Investigating the speed of a marble rolling down a variable ramp introduction in this experiment i am going to investigate the speed of a marble rolling down a variable ramp.
Find more round objects spheres or cylinders that you can roll down the ramp.
For example rolls of tape markers plastic bottles different types of balls etcetera.
My two hypotheses suggested that the surface texture of an inclined ramp would affect the distance traveled by a marble rolled down it and that the less textured the ramp s surface was the farther the marble would roll.
Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp.
Suppose you start the marble at rest xe 0 m s and it travels a distance of d.
Taten williams luke kelly and jack ambrose.
But if you did this same experiment on a flat surface the marble would barely move right it is gravity that is pulling the ball down the ramp.
Use 1 d kinematics to predict the velocity of the ball xi at the bottom of the ramp.
The input variable is the height of the ramp so i will keep everything the same except this factor.
See making measurements above.
The marble speeds up on its way down the ramp.
Using a water clock galileo measured the time it took for the ball to roll a known distance down the inclined plane.
Now you give a gentle push to the marble going uphill on the second ramp.
After many trials he observed that the amount of time it took for the ball to roll down the entire length of the ramp was equal to double the amount of time it took for the same ball to only roll a quarter of the distance.