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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 **
I used a golf ball because I did not have anything else, there was not a ball in my lab kit, so my data may be somewhat off due to this. I hope that is ok.
Thanks
** Will a steeper ramp give greater or lesser time? **
A ball is timed as it rolls from rest to the end of a ramp. The slope of the ramp is varied. Preliminary conclusions are drawn about the motion and the effect of ramp slope. A subsequent lab exercise uses the data from this lab to reach additional conclusions.
Most students report completion times between 30 minutes and 1 hour, with a few reporting times as short as 15 minutes or as long as 2 hours. Median time of completion is around 45 minutes.
Timing Ball down Ramp
The picture below shows a ball near the end of a grooved steel track (this steel track is a piece of 'shelf standard'); the shelf standard is supported by a stack of two dominoes. Your lab materials package contains two pieces of shelf standard; the shelf standard shown in the figure is white, but the one in your kit might be colored black, gold, silver or any of a variety of other colors.
If a ball rolls from an initial state of rest down three ramps with different slopes, the same distance along the ramp each time, do you think the time required to roll the length of the ramp will be greatest or least for the steepest ramp, or will the interval on the steepest ramp be neither the greatest nor the least? Explain why you think you have correctly predicted the behavior of the system.
I think that the time for the ball to roll down the steepest ramp will be least because of the increase in steepness. I think as the ball rolls down the less steep ramps it will take more time beaxuse it will not have as force from gravity as does the steeper of the ramps.
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If we write down the slopes from least to greatest, next to the time intervals observed for those slopes, would you expect the time intervals to be increasing or decreasing, or do you think there would be no clear pattern? Explain why you think you have correctly described the behavior of the numbers in the table.
Going from the slopes least to greatest next to the time interval Iwould think that time intervals observed would be decreasing because it would take less time for the ball to roll down the ramps with the greatest slopes.
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Set up the shelf standard ramp on a reasonably level table, using a piece of 30-cm shelf standard and a single domino under the high end of the ramp. Position the dominoes so that the last .5 cm of the ramp extends beyond the point where the ramp contacts the domino,.and do the same in all subsequent setups.
Set the bracket on the table, touching the lower end of the ramp so that a ball rolling down the ramp will strike the bracket..
Mark a point about 3 cm below the top end of the ramp. Place a domino on the ramp to its high end is at this point, and place the ball just above the domino, so the domino is holding it back. Quickly pull the domino away from the ball so the ball begins to roll freely down the ramp. Allow the ball to roll until it strikes the bracket.
The bracket will probably move a little bit. Reset it at the end of the ramp.
Determine how far the ball rolled from release until it struck the bracket.
Now repeat, but this time use the TIMER. The first click will occur at the instant you release the ball, the second at the instant the ball strikes the bracket. Practice until you are as sure as you can be that you are clicking and pulling back the domino at the same instant, and that your second click is simultaneous with the ball striking the bracket.
When you are ready, do 5 trials 'for real' and record your time intervals.
Then reverse the system--without otherwise changing the position of the ramp, place the domino under the left end and position the bracket at the right end.
Time 5 trials with the ramp in this position.
In the space below, give the time interval for each trial, rounded to the nearest .001 second. Give 1 trial on each line, so that you will have a total of 10 lines, the first 5 lines for the first system, then 5 lines for the second system.
Beginning in 11th line give a short narrative description of what your data means and how it was collected.
Also describe what you were thinking, relevant to physics and the experiment, during the process of setting up the system and performing the trials.
1.29
.922
.996
.887
.996
1.24
1.01
1.17
.953
1.15
This data was collected from a ball (golf ball) rolling down a ramp, the first five are from left to right, the second five are from the ball rolling right to left.
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Now place two dominoes under the right end and repeat the process, obtaining the time interval for each of 5 trials.
Then place the two dominoes under the left end and repeat once more.
Enter your 10 time intervals using the same format as before.
.686
.859
.688
.687
.734
.766
.672
.875
.641
.824
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Repeat the preceding using 3 dominoes instead of 2. Enter your 10 time intervals using the same format as before.
.605
.641
.687
.703
.714
.589
.636
.500
.390
.531
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Do your results support fail to support the hypotheses you stated in the first two questions, regarding the relationship between time intervals and slopes? Explain.
No I think that my results support the hypothesis that I made in the first two quesions, because the first trial with only one domino average about 1.06 second, the second with two dominos averaged about
.743 of a second, the third trial with three dominos averaged .599. So this would support that the higher the slope the faster the ball travels and the less time it take for the ball to travel from point A to point B.
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How do you think the average velocity of the ball is related to the slope of the ramp? Explain in as much detail as possible.
The slope is calculated by rise over run, the average velocity is found by the change in distance from point A to point B relative to the change in time. So Vave= 'ds/'dt If slope is the rise/ run and the distance is graphed on the vertical axis (rise) and time on the horizontal axis (run) then the slope would be the same as the Vave.
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Speculate on what it is that causes the average velocity on these ramps to change with slope.
I think that the average velocity changes with slope due to the increase in height. The higher the slope the higher the velocity the ball will travel.
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How might you verify whether your speculations are indeed valid explanations?
You could calculate the average velocity for each of the heights and find the slope for each of the heights and compare all of the trial together. YO ucould also plot the data on a graph and find the area of each, since area id found by height times the width, you will see the data change as the height and time changes for the area of that graph.
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Your instructor is trying to gauge the typical time spent by students on these experiments. Please answer the following question as accurately as you can, understanding that your answer will be used only for the stated purpose and has no bearing on your grades:
About 1 hour
&#Your work looks very good. Let me know if you have any questions. &#