Marble Roll Experiment

Release a marble from each of the five starting positions listed below.

Marble roll experiment.

Add a ball or marble. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of. One uncontrolled variable in my experiment was the floor because it wasn t exactly level. Set up the following experiment.

How far did it go. Roll the marble from the top of the ramp 1 metre from the bottom. For this experiment all you need is a ruler with a groove in the middle and some marbles. Record the distance travelled from the end of the ramp for each trial.

Conduct the experiment. 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. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. 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.

Observe other characteristics of and differences between the fillers and balls. Add fillers one at a time to the bin. Carry out four trials marble releases from each starting position. First we lined up three marbles in the middle and one marble at the edge.

Tip the container to roll the marble through the filler. Explore the ability of each marble or ball to roll through each filler. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer. They thought that the marbles in the middle would roll away.

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. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out. 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. The cup should move measure the distance between where the cup ended up and where the cup started out.

Roll a marble through the tube and into the cup. Sometimes near the end of a roll the marble would roll sharply to the side or stop and roll backwards. Many teachers will satisfy and develop this curiosity with basic physics experiments involving marbles. 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.

A small marble.