Marble In A Bowl Physics

A fun physics activity from science buddies.

Marble in a bowl physics.

Marble in glass bowl purpose. When the jell o is set in each cup place a marble on the surface of the jell o in the center of the cup. Get a feel for the force required to maintain this periodic motion. Marble and glass bowl.

Find a bowl or basin that is shaped like a hemisphere on the inside. Physics stack exchange is a question and answer site for active researchers academics and students of physics. Place a marble inside the bowl and tilt the bowl periodically so the marble rolls from the bottom of the bowl to equally high points on the sides of the bowl. By science buddies on july 12 2012.

We can make it roll back and forth just as a marble would in a real bowl. If one calculates. To demonstrate orbits in a gravitational potential well. Shm and the marble.

Start the marble rolling tangentially in the bowl to obtain an orbit then observe the effects of conservation of angular momentum. If we assume the marble is rolling instead of sliding then there necessarily must be friction between the bowl and the marble. The friction causes a torque which is not included in the op s computation. Place a marble inside the bowl and tilt the bowl periodically so the marble rolls from the bottom of the bowl to equally high points on the sides of the bowl.

What is the restoring force and what role does the force you apply play in the simple harmonic motion shm of the marble.