4 Experiments

course Phy 201

1.How does the acceleration of a steel ball down the track depend on the slope of the track? Note that the screw-adjusted mechanism changes its length by 1/32 of an inch for every 360 degree turn of the screw. Set up a ramp with the screw-adjusted mechanism at the top to change the slope of the ramp. Measure the delta S and the time and use this to find velocity and then use the delta v/delta t to get the acceleration. The screw-adjusted mechanism changes the slope of the ramp so take this into account.

5.If a larger steel ball collides center to center with a smaller ball, what are the velocities before and after collision? According to your results, assuming that momentum is conserved, what is the ratio of the masses of the two balls? Set up two ramps and let the last ramp level off, and at the end of the second ramp put a tee holding the small ball while the bigger ball rolls down the ramps. The balls should hit each other at about the center. You should also use about 4 dominos to prop the first ramp up, and when the balls hit the ground we can collect the delta S and more data, then we analyze.

12.To what extent is the motion of a mass suspended from the end of a steel spring similar to that of a mass suspended from a rubber band? Set up both a spring and rubber band attached to a plastic bag containing the same number of dominos. You measure to see how much each one streatches from the start and at the end. Then you can compare the data to see similarities and differences.

This is a good start, but you need to also address motion. What happens if you put a mass at the end of the spring and let it bob up and down? What if you do this with the rubber band chain? What's the difference?

16.How and in what ways does the behavior of a rubber band chain depend on temperature? How and in what ways does the temperature depend on the behavior of the chain? Set up a rubber band chain and measure it. Now put the rubber band chain in a room where temperature can be manipulated. Measure the temperature and in what ways the rubber band chain has changed, you can now answer the questions from finding this information out.

Good so far. What other behaviors can be observed with a rubber band?