Marble Roll Experiment

Tip the container to roll the marble through the filler.

Marble roll experiment.

Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of. Long cardboard tube such as an empty roll of wrapping paper to make your ramp. Sometimes near the end of a roll the marble would roll sharply to the side or stop and roll backwards. Record the distance travelled from the end of the ramp for each trial.

Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer. Release a marble from each of the five starting positions listed below. One uncontrolled variable in my experiment was the floor because it wasn t exactly level. Carry out four trials marble releases from each starting position.

Roll a marble through the tube and into the cup. First we lined up three marbles in the middle and one marble at the edge. Set up the following experiment. 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.

I asked the boys what they thought would happen when i flicked the marble. Add a ball or marble. They thought that the marbles in the middle would roll away. 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.

The cup should move measure the distance between where the cup ended up and where the cup started out. Add fillers one at a time to the bin. 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. Observe other characteristics of and differences between the fillers and balls.

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. Many teachers will satisfy and develop this curiosity with basic physics experiments involving marbles. A small marble. Blackline 2 marble roll experiment 2 record sheet 34 session 7 marble roll experiment 3 what happens if you make the ramp longer.

Explore the ability of each marble or ball to roll through each filler. Young students often experiment with spheres to see how far they travel and how their motion affects other objects. 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. Conduct the experiment.

How far did it go.