For this expirement you will need a few simple Items;
-Roller Chair
-Sports Ball
-Ductape
-A Downward Slope You Can Slide The Chair Down
This project is a simple representation, showing the 1st law and even ways to keep yourself protected from it (You will understand later on).
1: First thing you want to do is collect your supplies, you can't do an expirement without anything to use!
2: Take the ductape and put it going straid down the center of your slope, so you have a line.
3: Start the chair at the highest point of the ramp and let it roll down, make sure to release it as straight as possible. Have someone else be at the end of the tape to stop the chair, but the chair ONLY. Write your observations.
4: Now, put the Sports Ball on the chair and repeat step three.
5: Now repeat four but instead, ductape the Sports Ball to the chair so it won't move.
6: Review your information and write a conclusion, why do you think what happened did? What happened to the ball? Did the ducttape change anything?
What should have happened was that the chair always moved away from the line, because of human error, wind, friction, and other natural accurances. The most important thing is when you stopped the chair on step number four, the ball should have countinued going until natural accurances stopped it as well. Why is this? Well the first law states that an object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon by an unbalanced force and equal for an object in motion. So what happened was when you released the chair, it and the ball moved. But because only the chair stopped, the ball continued until friction and such occured.
-Roller Chair
-Sports Ball
-Ductape
-A Downward Slope You Can Slide The Chair Down
This project is a simple representation, showing the 1st law and even ways to keep yourself protected from it (You will understand later on).
1: First thing you want to do is collect your supplies, you can't do an expirement without anything to use!
2: Take the ductape and put it going straid down the center of your slope, so you have a line.
3: Start the chair at the highest point of the ramp and let it roll down, make sure to release it as straight as possible. Have someone else be at the end of the tape to stop the chair, but the chair ONLY. Write your observations.
4: Now, put the Sports Ball on the chair and repeat step three.
5: Now repeat four but instead, ductape the Sports Ball to the chair so it won't move.
6: Review your information and write a conclusion, why do you think what happened did? What happened to the ball? Did the ducttape change anything?
What should have happened was that the chair always moved away from the line, because of human error, wind, friction, and other natural accurances. The most important thing is when you stopped the chair on step number four, the ball should have countinued going until natural accurances stopped it as well. Why is this? Well the first law states that an object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon by an unbalanced force and equal for an object in motion. So what happened was when you released the chair, it and the ball moved. But because only the chair stopped, the ball continued until friction and such occured.