Marble Ramp And Acceleration Lab

I choose a fishbowl to introduce this activity instead of a lecture or a recipe lab because i want students.

Marble ramp and acceleration lab. Bell ringer marble ramp lab. Roll the marble from the top of the plank. Measure the total length of the ramp and record in data table b as l. Record your distance in the data table.

By rolling a steel marble down a ramp and measuring its horizontal range you can calculate the marble s launch velocity. Although the marble only has a change in speed and not direction we can still determine that acceleration occurred due to the definition. Set up your lab station as follows. The steepness of the incline can be measured by the ratio of height to length.

In this lab we measured the acceleration of a rolling ball down a ramp at a specific height. 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. Because the marble gains speed as it travels down the ramp it has acceleration. Modeling the marble ramp lab.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. To confirm this velocity with an independent measurement you can use a photogate. In this part the distance rolled down the ramp and the angle of slope are both variables. A traditional fishbowl is a teaching strategy where students contribute to a discussion or activity.

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. Mark the distance. 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. Rate of acceleration is proportional to incline of ramp.

This video shows a marble accelerating down a ramp made from two meter sticks resting on 1 textbook. This relates to the lab results because as we determined the marble gained speed as it advanced down the ramp.