In this experiment, you’re looking for two different things: first you’ll be dropping objects and making craters in a bowl of flour to see how energy is transformed from potential to kinetic, but you’ll also note that no matter how carefully you do the experiment, you’ll never get the same exact impact location twice.
To get started, you’ll need to gather your materials for this experiment. Here’s what you need:
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There’s a how-to video –
Go to this page:
https://www.sciencelearningspace2.com/science-with-aurora/
and look at the 2nd video down (under “Data Table”)
This video outlines how to create your own data table.
For this experiment, I might change the drop height to see if it changes the pattern made in the flour… just one idea.
Hi how should we journal this
Okay, I think I’m starting to understand. Our 10 gram marble would have .1 joule of energy. Thank you! 🙂
Almost… you have to multiply the weight, which is mass times gravity, by the height so the equation is: PE = mgh.
For the example, it’s (0.070 kg) x (10 m/s2) x (1 meter) = 0.7 Joules of energy!
What do you think it is for your 10 gram marble?
How do you calculate the potential energy, as directed in step 6? I’m just checking, is it the mass of the ball times the height of the drop? Would the result be called Joules of potential energy?
So our marble was 10 grams, dropped from the height of 1 meter, so that would be 10 joules of potential energy? I’m confused, sorry. Thank you!
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Nice. For some reason our balls didn’t make a big impression 🙂 but =) they sure made a mess. We had a really heavy golf ball, but it did not really make an impression.
/br/> sevy keble 🙂