Inclined Plane Marble Experiment Lab Report

Set up a ramp with the angle of the incline at about 10 to the horizontal as shown in figure a.

Inclined plane marble experiment lab report.

In this experiment the inclined plane makes work easier by allowing gravity without any help from you to move the marble down the ramp. In our experiment we will model galileo s ramp and his determination of the behavior for naturally occurring accelerated motion by using an inclined plane a motion detector and the labpro software. The force an acceleration for cart accelerated down an inclined plane is studied as function of the angle of incline. Through this experiment galileo concluded that if an object is released from rest and gains speed at a steady rate as it would in free fall or when rolling down an inclined plane then the total distance s traveled by the object is proportional to the time squared needed for that travel.

These positions will be your. Generally having a greater mass means that a rolling object such as a ball will have a greater moment of inertia. Be familiar with galileo s inclined plane. As we conduct our experiment we will gradually increase the incline s angle of elevation recording the height between the top of the table and.

August 23 2001 purpose. Created for doc s physics class produced by madison plummer class of 2013. This is an important experiment in physical science. The purpose of this experiment is to measure the acceleration due to gravity g.

If we assume µ 0 then the acceleration of the cart down the plane is given by. S t 2. Acceleration due to gravity example 1 date. When building a marble run your child will likely discover that tilting a cardboard tube and lowering one end will make the marble move.

Steel ball bearing or marble wood block stopwatch tape meter stick protractor procedure. A cart is accelerated down a nearly frictionless inclined plane. Become familiar with the concept of hypothesis testing by experiment. Divide the ramp s length into six equal parts and mark the six positions on the board with pieces of tape.

Observe and measure motion on an inclined plane. For many years the effects of mass on objects rolling down an inclined plane have been studied and well known. Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object.