Marble Ramp And Acceleration Lab

Set up your lab station as follows.

Marble ramp and acceleration lab.

Roll the marble from the top of the plank. 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. Modeling the marble ramp lab.

Bell ringer marble ramp lab. In this lab we measured the acceleration of a rolling ball down a ramp at a specific height. Mark the distance. In this part the distance rolled down the ramp and the angle of slope are both variables.

I choose a fishbowl to introduce this activity instead of a lecture or a recipe lab because i want students. 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. 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. Measure the total length of the ramp and record in data table b as l.

The steepness of the incline can be measured by the ratio of height to length. This video shows a marble accelerating down a ramp made from two meter sticks resting on 1 textbook. Determine how many centimeters the marble rolled in 5 seconds. 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.

This relates to the lab results because as we determined the marble gained speed as it advanced down the ramp. We marked this ramp at each distance in which we were starting the ball from. Physics 31210 lab 2 projectile motion introduction. Because the marble gains speed as it travels down the ramp it has acceleration.

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.