Marble Rolling Down A Ramp Experiment

I predict that the steeper the ramp the faster the marble will travel.

Marble rolling down a ramp experiment.

Starting with the cylinder at rest use the stopwatch to measure the time to roll distance d 1 0 meter down the ramp. After many trials he observed that the amount of time it took for the ball to roll down the entire length of the ramp was equal to double the amount of time it took for the same ball to only roll a quarter of the distance. Investigating the speed of a marble rolling down a variable ramp introduction in this experiment i am going to investigate the speed of a marble rolling down a variable ramp. My two hypotheses suggested that the surface texture of an inclined ramp would affect the distance traveled by a marble rolled down it and that the less textured the ramp s surface was the farther the marble would roll.

Now you give a gentle push to the marble going uphill on the second ramp. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out. In this part the distance d down the ramp is the variable while the angle of slope is constant. But if you did this same experiment on a flat surface the marble would barely move right it is gravity that is pulling the ball down the ramp.

Average calculated on rolls 2 3 and spare roll. Find more round objects spheres or cylinders that you can roll down the ramp. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. It starts to roll faster and faster down the ramp right.

The marble speeds up on its way down the ramp. So that marble teetering at the top of the ramp has the potential energy of gravity which is the force that will pull it down the ramp. See making measurements above. Taten williams luke kelly and jack ambrose.

The input variable is the height of the ramp so i will keep everything the same except this factor. For example rolls of tape markers plastic bottles different types of balls etcetera. It slows down as it goes up. Finally you push a marble on a ramp that represents the middle state between the first two in other words a ramp that is perfectly horizontal.

Use 1 d kinematics to predict the velocity of the ball xi at the bottom of the ramp. Suppose you start the marble at rest xe 0 m s and it travels a distance of d. Using a water clock galileo measured the time it took for the ball to roll a known distance down the inclined plane.