Marble Roll Experiment

A small marble.

Marble roll experiment.

Young students often experiment with spheres to see how far they travel and how their motion affects other objects. For this experiment all you need is a ruler with a groove in the middle and some marbles. Many teachers will satisfy and develop this curiosity with basic physics experiments involving marbles. Sometimes near the end of a roll the marble would roll sharply to the side or stop and roll backwards.

Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer. One uncontrolled variable in my experiment was the floor because it wasn t exactly level. Explore the ability of each marble or ball to roll through each filler. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp.

Roll the marble from the top of the ramp 1 metre from the bottom. 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. Record the distance travelled from the end of the ramp for each trial. Conduct the experiment.

Add fillers one at a time to the bin. In this experiment you will roll a marble down a ramp to find out. Tip the container to roll the marble through the filler. Release a marble from each of the five starting positions listed below.

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. Set up the following experiment. Roll a marble through the tube and into the cup. 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.

First we lined up three marbles in the middle and one marble at the edge. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer. I asked the boys what they thought would happen when i flicked the marble. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of.

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. Carry out four trials marble releases from each starting position. How far did it go. The cup should move measure the distance between where the cup ended up and where the cup started out.

Add a ball or marble.