Acceleration on Incline with Predictions
Your teacher has given you a toy car that will move down a very long ramp. A wooden barrier can be placed at different locations along the ramp. When the car hits the barrier it will stop the timer and also record the speed of the car. You will be looking to see how the distance to the barrier affects the speed of the car and the time it took the car to reach the barrier.
After you collect enough data to develop a relationship for the car's motion down the incline, you will use that relationship to make predictions for things you didn't measure.
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After you collect enough data to develop a relationship for the car's motion down the incline, you will use that relationship to make predictions for things you didn't measure.
Click the Begin button to start this activity
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Measure the distance from the front of the car to the barrier.
Click on the barrier if you want to move it to a new location.
Click on the car to start it down the incline.
Click on the barrier if you want to move it to a new location.
Click on the car to start it down the incline.
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