Marble Momentum Experiment

Awesome things to do with your parents babysitters and other adults from the quirky mommas behind the popular kids activities blog has a similar activity to our marble drop experiment.

Marble momentum experiment.

The marble will be rolled down the meter stick or ruler using string and rubber bands to create guardrails to stop the marble from rolling off. In part two a spinning m1 marble hits a non spinning m2 marble. Marbles in the tube. We first timed and found the velocity for four trials which we used to find the distance for which the marble should end up.

The large marble rolled off at a slower speed than that of the small marble that struck it. Analysis discussion of your results in detail this should be more than 1 2 sentences. By the law of the conservation of momentum the prod uct of mass 2 speed momentum should be the same before and after the collision. In order for the moving marble s momentum to be conserved some of the momentum of the top marble should transfer to the unmoving bottom marble upon contact putting the immobile marble in motion.

We found that the marble rolling down from the height of one book has the least momentum. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of energy mass velocity and momentum using ramps rulers and cardboard tubes. Thus the angular momentum of. What did your results show.

Try to transfer the momentum with three marbles. The m1 marble loses speed and thus spin the m2 marble goes from not spinning sitting still on the track to spinning very quickly. What did you exactly do. This next experiment came from bill nye the science guy but i can t remember if it was in a book or on the show.

Student advanced version only 8. In the experiments above we considered only linear momentum but the marbles are spinning as they move on the track. Repeat the experiment but this time roll two marbles into the row of five. Momentum and inelastic collisions.

Conserving energy have students explore potential and kinetic energy by releasing a marble on a simulated roller coaster. Stacking two books or using the large marble increased the momentum by an almost equal amount. The 101 coolest simple science experiments. When it runs into the motionless marbles its momentum gets transferred from one marble to the next.

With two moving marbles there s twice as much momentum to transfer. In this experiment you will observe a rolling marble on a stationary object cup. Your main set up should be assembled as pictured below. In trials 1 and 2 of the data table the marbles that moved off the ruler had the same.