Marble Race Experiment

If you would like to create a zigzag or other more complex route with the cardboard tubes you can experiment with cutting notches in the ends of the tubes so that a marble can drop down from one tube into the next one and so on.

Marble race experiment. Honey corn syrup and molasses. Record the name of the liquid you tested the original height of the liquid and how long it took for the marble to fall in seconds. Using painter s tape to protect your walls tape the tubes end to end at a slightly sloping angle against a wall. Preparing your glasses for the marble race.

Repeat the experiment 2 more times for each liquid so there is enough data to take an average. The goal is to design a car that will go the farthest when powered by a marble that travels down a ramp and pushes the car across a flat surface. By science buddies on august 27 2015. Fluids will form and spread away if not contained by another material the difference between fluids and solids solids fluids molecules are tightly packed together molecules can freely move.

أعرض هذا باللغة العربية. An example of potential energy is a stretched out rubber band the farther you stretch it the more potential energy it has. In subsequent testings we added maple syrup shampoo and some different cooking oils. Repeat the experiment up to this step starting from preparing the graduated cylinder to measure the viscosity of each liquid for each of the remaining test liquids.

So i decided why not. In this experiment the inclined plane makes work easier by allowing gravity without any help from you to move the marble down the ramp. Timing the marble works best when using liquids that have a high viscosity ie. Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object.

Expand on the experiment by estimating how long it will take for the marble to sink to the bottom of the jar. Simultaneously drop the marble and start the stopwatch. To do this density marble race experiment you will need. Fun science experiment marble powered race cars.

Stop the timer when the marble touches the bottom of the cylinder. Fluids a fluid is a liquid or gas which can flow and changes its shape at a steady rate. Some friends suggested i try to post a marble race on youtube. Measure down about 2 cm from the top of each glass with the ruler and mark the 2 cm location with the water soluble marker.

In this fun science experiment kids create paper race cars out of index cards. Matching clear containers i used our jumbo test tubes it adds to the feeling of official scientist status at least two different liquids we tested water vegetable oil baby oil and corn syrup. Then set a timer and find out how close your estimate was.