The next lab we did was called Marble Motion.
Guiding Questions: Does the mass of a marble affect how it moves?
When given a force, what happens to it's motion?
What were we supposed to do is we had couple of different circular objects: Marble, Styrofoam ball, golf ball, big marble and the tennis ball. We had straws and we had to blow toward the ball and see the distance and the path of each ball.
Data Analysis: When we blew the ball with the straw these circular objects, for some of them we needed two straws.
Conclusion: The mass of a ball indicates the difficulty of it to get moving. If a ball is lighter, it's easier to move, but it's more " clumsy" meaning it's not going a straight path. If a ball is heavy, it's harder to move, but it goes in a perfect straight directions. So practically,its the same thing with balls as it is to humans. If a person is light, he/she would be easier to move than a fat man.
When a force is given to a certain object, it's motion changes. When a gravity is getting smaller, the changing of direction is diminishing.
Guiding Questions: Does the mass of a marble affect how it moves?
When given a force, what happens to it's motion?
What were we supposed to do is we had couple of different circular objects: Marble, Styrofoam ball, golf ball, big marble and the tennis ball. We had straws and we had to blow toward the ball and see the distance and the path of each ball.
Data Analysis: When we blew the ball with the straw these circular objects, for some of them we needed two straws.
Conclusion: The mass of a ball indicates the difficulty of it to get moving. If a ball is lighter, it's easier to move, but it's more " clumsy" meaning it's not going a straight path. If a ball is heavy, it's harder to move, but it goes in a perfect straight directions. So practically,its the same thing with balls as it is to humans. If a person is light, he/she would be easier to move than a fat man.
When a force is given to a certain object, it's motion changes. When a gravity is getting smaller, the changing of direction is diminishing.
I like how you described the "clumsy" balls. Good conclusion.
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