Toy car ramp experiment

This short video shows students a simple experimental investigation and asks them to determine what question the investigation was designed to answer. Print out the Experiment steps for the ramp experiment or the Procedure for ramp experiment for each student depending on need in your class.

In this case the force stopping the car is friction between the wheels and the floor.

Toy car ramp experiment. This video shows the difference in speed when a toy car goes down the same ramp for the same distance but the ramp has a different surface in each test. We recently got a new washer so I pulled some of the cardboard packaging out to use as ramps and grabbed a few cars from our toy bin. We then used these to experiment with force motion gravity.

I set the ramp up using a table in our playroom and then girls pushed the cars down with different amounts of force. At first we only gave them a little push a small amount of force to send them down. This short video shows students a simple experimental investigation and asks them to determine what question the investigation was designed to answer.

Cars or similar toy cars. Heavyweight Race Track Willaheavyoralightcartravelfarther. To test this have kids set up a basic ramp.

Release a car down the ramp and measure how far it travels past the ramp. Then try adding weight to the car and do it again. Quarters work well for weight.

We attached three quarters to the back of the car with clear tape. This experiment was created for a unit on force and motion. Students work in groups to explore factors that affect speed.

Using a toy car students alter the height of a ramp and the material used on the ramp to calculate its speed. They make predictions and draw conclusions through this process. Weigh the car on the scales along with some blu-tak and the card.

Make sure the total weight comes to 25g you can add and remove blu-tak. Blu-tak the card to the car. Making sure the recording software is on.

Place the car 10cm from the end of the ramp 90cm from the beginning as the ramp is equal to 100cm. Were going to investigate how the distance travelled by a car is affected by the gradient of the slope and the surface of the ramp. A ramp we used this brilliant ramp from The Consortium but you could make your own with cardboard or wood.

Carpet or other rough surface. Cars LEGO or DUPLO work well. I will test the stopping distance on 5 different height ramps ranging from 037m to 077m and I will repeat the experiment 5 times as to eliminate ant anomalous resultsFair test-To make sure the experiment is a fair test I will keep all non-variable aspects of the experiment the same Ramp stand surface toy car ruler and where on the ramp the model starts the only thing I will change is.

In this case the force stopping the car is friction between the wheels and the floor. We used a simple ramp made out of Hot Wheels track propped up on blocks for this experiment. We chose to measure how far the car traveled past the end of the ramp so that our procedure would be consistent each time.

Hold the toy car at the top of the ramp aligning the back of the car with the edge of the ramp. Have the camera ready to record. Start recording video and release the car without pushing it allowing it to roll freely down the ramp into the catching box.

Repeat steps 3-4 twice more. Increase theta by 10degree. Have a trifold foldable prepared for each student.

Print out the Experiment steps for the ramp experiment or the Procedure for ramp experiment for each student depending on need in your class. 5 books for each group. 1 wood ramp for each group.

1 toy car for each group. 1 measuring tape for each group. Test your toy car on the bare ramp by placing it at the top and letting go.

Dont push the car as this will alter your results. Using your stopwatch time how long it takes the car to come to a complete stop. Use your tape measure to calculate how far down or past the ramp the car travelled.

Feel the different materials on your other ramps. Explore friction using toy cars. Work with a group to investigate friction and to see what happens to the distance a toy car travels when you change the surface at the bottom of a ramp.

With support understand what makes a test fair and how to measure accurately. Toy car on an incline 5 EXPERIMENT AND DATA ANALYSIS WITH TI83 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP AND PROCEDURE TI83 In order to perform this experiment the following items are needed. Incline made up for example by a shelf from a bookcase or an inclined plane from the physics lab Toy car or small cart with light wheels Graphing calculator TI-83plus.

Leave one ramp without a texture as a test ramp to compare the others to. Tape different textures to the other ramps. Get your toy cars ready for some ramp action.

Start with allowing your kids to explore the control ramp with different cars. Which toy cars move faster or slower. Once your child understands the concept of a ramp encourage her to experiment by choosing which heights or sizes of blocks to use next.

You can challenge your child to build the longest ramp and see what happens. Add weights dolls or other materials to the cars to see how these changes affect the speed of the car. The result matches the prediction as the height of the ramp increase the speed of the toy car roll down on the ramp will increase because of the gravitational force pull the toy car down on the ramp the higher height the toy car roll down on the ramp the more gravitational forces involved so the toy car will get a faster speed but in the contrary the lower height the toy car roll down on the ramp.

You can learn about force and friction by using a paper or toy car a ramp and a marble. Roll the marble down the ramp so it hits the car at the bottom of the ramp. You can see that the vehicle moves from the force of the marble.

Use some cars and DIY roadblocks to perform these 3 different experiments. Your kids will love this STEM activity and learning a bit about physics while using their mini-world toys. When a marble or toy car is let go at the top of a slope it is pulled down the slope by the force called gravity.

Different weights are pulled down at the same speed remember Galileos famous experiment from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But the distance they travel when they reach a flat surface at the bottom depends.