ball down ramp

phy 201

Your 'ball down ramp' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.

** Your general comment **

** Will a steeper ramp give greater or lesser time? **

the time required will be least for the steepest ramp

** As slopes increases will time intervals increase, decrease or show no pattern? **

decreasing

** Your report of 5 trials each way for 1 domino **

1.763

1.82

1.871

1.845

1.791

1.698

1.793

1.812

1.812

1.719

was collected by timing the ball rolling down the ramp to hit the bracket.

** Your report of 5 trials each way for 2 dominoes **

.994

.921

.101

.998

.109

.103

.89

.912

.903

.849

.952

was collected by timing the ball rolling down the ramp to hit the bracket.

** Your report of 5 trials each way for 3 dominoes **

.670

.589

.528

.588

.612

.532

.582

.588

.612

.564

was collected by timing the ball rolling down the ramp to hit the bracket.

** Do your results support or fail to support your hypothesis about increasing or decreasing times? **

the results support the hypotheses, the steeper the slope, the shorter the time to fall

** How do you think ave velocity is related to slope? **

the average velocity increases as the slope of the ramp increases.

** Speculate on why ave velocity changes with slope. **

the gravity pulls at a more vertical angle so there is less resistance of the ramp on the ball.

** How could you test your speculations? **

run the lab experiment and record data.

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30 min.

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Good data, good work.