Objective: Students use a simplified system to walk
through the engineering design process. The design goal is to establish
parameters for a ramp system such that a marble will roll down the ramp,
launch into the air and hit a particular (small) target.
Materials: Each 2-4 student team will need
- A marble ramp (Half-pipe tube cut from six-foot length of plumbing
insulation foam, inner radius 1 inch. Ramp end propped 3-4 inches,
raised end up ~3 feet)
- Scissors
- Marble (~5/8 inch diameter)
- Film container, shot glass or similarly sized container "target"
- Meter stick
- Metric tape measure
- Masking tape
- Plumb-bob to counter parallax
- Paper for landing area marks
- Pencil or marker
- Table for recording measurements and relationships
- Web browser connection to the Projectile Applet
- Web browser connection to the Data Flyer Applet
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