Marble Ramps With Rulers

Place a half cup at the base of the ramp so that a marble rolling down the ramp will enter the cup and push it.

Marble ramps with rulers.

Lean a grooved ruler or paper towel tube against the textbooks or other props so that the top end is at the 5 cm height while the other end is touching the floor. The ramp should be positioned so that the marble rolled down the ramp will roll across the floor and collide with the wall. A truly admirable marble ramp was distinguished by the length of time taken by the marble to emerge the longer the better and by the variety of interesting noises it made on the way. Potential energy is the energy that is stored in an object.

Put a marble at one point along the ruler but don t tell the students the cm position of the marble. I implement their suggestion and the marble misses the sail completely and bounces off of the table. Ramp set up higher and higher. If i set up a ramp that was 4 blocks high the marble would probably roll somewhere in the 50 s.

The ruler should be placed so that the lower numbers are at the base of the ramp. You ll be amazed at the lego marble runs they can create. Suzanne if i could launch my marble off a ramp that started as high as a desk i could really get it to roll far. Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of energy mass velocity and momentum using ramps rulers and cardboard tubes.

Position one marble at the top of the ruler 30 cm and. Now take the biggest triangle and draw the marble ramps using a pen and ruler make the ramps 1 5cm or a bit bigger depending on the size of your marbles. An example of potential energy is a stretched out rubber band the farther you stretch it the more potential energy it has. It s fun to build ramps jumps and all kinds of creative projects.

One weekend we pooled our talents and materials and set up an enormous marble ramp alongside two walls of the classroom using piles of books rulers and. I built this track myself my kids didn t help but it was based off inspiration from kids at a recent lego event we attended. Students suggest i roll the marble and try to hit the sail. Release the marble and let students observe that the marble moves the cup along the tabletop.

Once you ve finished drawing the ramps take some scissors and cut them out. In this post i m going to show you how to build a really awesome lego marble run. If i start. Some students will likely say that the higher the marble is on the ramp the farther the cup will move.

I implement their suggestion and the marble moves in a straight line and hits the sail. Students then suggest i roll the marble on top of the ruler since it has a groove. The marble went 25 then 34 then 47 cubes. Gavin it s kind of like when i ride a bike.

If you want a shallow marble ramp you might need to make some more ramps. In this experiment the inclined plane makes work easier by allowing gravity without any help from you to move the marble down the ramp.