Acceleration Lab - Barren County Schools
Velocity and Acceleration Lab Activity
Problem: How does changing the angle of an incline influence the velocity and acceleration of an object rolling down it?
Hypothesis: If you know the length of a ramp and time a car going down it …
Materials: incline, timer, meter stick, three textbooks, rolling objects (car/marble)
Procedure:
1. Set up an inclined plane (cardboard with hot wheels track attached) at an angle of 10 degrees. (use
one textbook for this angle)
2. Measure the exact length of the incline (hot wheels strip) in centimeters meters to the nearest tenth of
a centimeter (one decimal place) – this should be close to 50cm.
3. Place your rolling object at the top of the incline and allow your object to roll down the incline.
Record the exact amount of time that is required to go from top to bottom.
4. Repeat step three two more times.
5. Calculate the average velocity and acceleration of your object down the incline by using the formulas
from class. V = Distance / Time and Acceleration = Final Velocity – Initial V / time
6. Repeat steps one through five for your object – but change the angle of the incline to 25 degrees. (use
two textbooks for this angle)
7. Again, repeat steps one through five for the object at an angle of 40 degrees. (use three textbooks for
this angle)
8. Repeat procedure steps one through seven with a different object of different mass (car and marble).
Data:
Rolling object – Car
Incline Angle |Time Trial 1 |Time Trial 2 |Time Trial 3 |Average Time for three trials |Distance of incline plane (cm) |Velocity (cm/s) (average of your three trials) |Acceleration (cm/s2) (average of your three trials) | |10ْ | | | | | | | | |25ْ | | | | | | | | |40ْ | | | | | | | | |
Rolling object – Marble
Incline Angle |Time Trial 1 |Time Trial 2 |Time Trial 3 |Average Time for three trials |Distance of incline plane (cm) |Velocity (cm/s) (average of your three trials) |Acceleration (cm/s2) (average of your three trials) | |10ْ | | | | | | | | |25ْ | | | | | | | | |40ْ | | | | | | | | |Graphing Section
A. Construct a graph for acceleration of the car at the different angles of the incline. This should be a line graph. Place the time values for the car on the x-axis and the velocity values on the y-axis. Remember that all blocks (squares) on each axis must have an equal value when you plot the data.
B. Construct a graph for acceleration of the marble at the different angles of the incline. This should be a line graph. Place the time values for the marble on the x- axis and the velocity values on the y-axis. Remember that all blocks (squares) on each axis must have an equal value when you plot the data.
Conclusion Questions:
Use complete sentences in formulating each of your responses.
1. How did changing the slope of the incline change your velocity and acceleration values?
2. Was the graph that you constructed for acceleration linear in nature (a line)?
Why or why didn't it take this shape?
3. What force(s) caused the object to roll down the incline?
4. Based upon your data, speculate how increasing the mass of a moving object
would increase its velocity down the incline?
5. Why was it important to do multiple trials of this activity?
6. Define each of the following words; acceleration, velocity and speed.
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Reminder: Utilize proper graphing techniques. These include giving your graphs and labeling your axes
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