Many teachers will satisfy and develop this curiosity with basic physics experiments involving marbles.
Physics experiment with rubber ball and marble.
When the rubber band is released and pours out all that energy it had stored up or when the marble begins to fly down the inclined plane that energy is kinetic energy.
Decide the different heights to do the freefall.
Take the metre rule and stick it to a straight wall.
When the jell o is set in each cup place a marble on the surface of the jell o in.
The purpose of this experiment is to find out whether the texture of a surface will affect the distance rolled by a marble and if so which ramp surface a marble will roll the farthest on.
Obviously a ball won t bounce as high on carpet.
Popular marble experiments help students discover basic principles of energy mass velocity.
It would also be fun to explore the effect of different surfaces on the bounce of the bouncy ball.
The cold ball does not have much elasticity and more energy is lost when it collides with the floor with the result being that it does not bounce as high.
When the rubber band is released and pours out all that energy it had stored up or when the marble begins to fly down the marble run that energy is kinetic energy.
One of the most famous analogies in science is fundamentally flawed say physicists who have shown that a.
Average the recorded bounce heights from each 50 cm trial together to find the average bounce height for the rubber ball.
So potential energy is the energy that is saved up in still objects and kinetic energy is the energy that pours out of moving objects energy in motion.
Experiments reveal that deformed rubber sheet is not like spacetime.
Set the timer for one second and then hold a marble in place at the starting line.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 for the ping pong ball.
Take a rubber ball and a metre rule.
At the exact same time as you start the timer release the marble being careful not to give it a push as you let.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 for the marble.