Physics !

Physics

Learning Intention: to conduct and investigate the properties of physics.

Today we conducted a mathematical investigation that involved properties of *physics.

Purpose: - To design a prototype to investigate the distance one glass marble that could roll

as the distance of our marble. (Investigating the distance of each marble).

Our group measured how far each of our marble went. We used 3 rulers to design a

device so that our marble wasn't able to jump off or that it would just roll down and

onto the concrete. The distances of our investigations were

1. 5.45m
2. 6.18m
3. 5.26m

For our investigation, we used:

• 1.5 meters of masking tape
• 3 wooden meter long rulers
• 3 - 4 glass marbles or similar rolling objects.
• A white chalk

1. We used the tape to tape the three rulers like a hallway/passage.
2. Then we leaned the ruler onto the fixed object (fence) and we made

sure that it was *elevated (of 80 cm from the hard surface) from the fence to

the concrete so that it could increase the speed of the marble.

3. We then rolled our 3 marbles one by one to see what the distance

of each marble was.

4. After each marble has been measured, we used the chalk to mark
5. where it each stopped.

The higher the ruler was elevated, the faster the marble was able to roll on the hard

surface. It made our investigation more easier for the marble to go further on the hard

surface.

These were our investigations for today!

*Definition of physics - science of the properties of matter and energy

*Elevated - slope

Link to our video: Designing our device -

Video number 1

In this photo, we designed our passage for our marbles so that it could roll down and that

we are able to measure the distance of the marbles.