Marble Roll Experiment

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Marble roll experiment. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer. Observe other characteristics of and differences between the fillers and balls. Set up the following experiment. For this experiment all you need is a ruler with a groove in the middle and some marbles.

How far did it go. Sometimes near the end of a roll the marble would roll sharply to the side or stop and roll backwards. Release a marble from each of the five starting positions listed below. The same principles apply to spheres as well a solid sphere such as a marble should roll faster than a hollow sphere such as an air filled ball regardless of their respective diameters.

Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. They thought that the marbles in the middle would roll away. Roll a marble through the tube and into the cup. Explore the ability of each marble or ball to roll through each filler.

Record the distance travelled from the end of the ramp for each trial. Add fillers one at a time to the bin. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out. Now move the cup back to the same spot on the line and repeat the experiment but this time hold the cardboard tube at a slightly higher angle.

35 blackline 3 marble roll experiment 3 record sheet 38 session 8 another look at averaging 39 teacher record sheet marble roll experiment 1 record sheet 43 session 9 finding average distances 44 teacher record sheet. I asked the boys what they thought would happen when i flicked the marble. Roll the marble from the top of the ramp 1 metre from the bottom. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer.

A small marble. First we lined up three marbles in the middle and one marble at the edge. I therefore disregarded the first roll 284 inches and rolled the marble a fourth time and then calculated the average for rolls two three and four. The cup should move measure the distance between where the cup ended up and where the cup started out.

Add a ball or marble. Young students often experiment with spheres to see how far they travel and how their motion affects other objects. One uncontrolled variable in my experiment was the floor because it wasn t exactly level. Many teachers will satisfy and develop this curiosity with basic physics experiments involving marbles.

Conduct the experiment.