Friday, April 25, 2008

Experiment

Objective: To see if an object in motion stay in motion without be forced upon an external force.

Hypothesis: The mass in the hall's cart will not fall out. It will stay in becasue there is no force to make it fall out.

Materials:
-cardboard
-wooden ramp
-cart-100g of mass

Procedure: First place the wooden ramp on the floor. Then tape a piece of cardboard over the hole of the cart. Then put 100g mass on top of the cardboard. Push the cart so that it collides with the edge of the wooden ramp. Do this at least 4 to 5 times.

Data:
1.Pulling the cart by the string.
2.Gently forcing to move toward the edge of the ramp.
3.The cart hit the edge of the ramp and it fell off.

Conclusion: My hypothesis is incorrect. I thought that the mass in the cart will weigh the cart down. Around all I learned that althrough something look like it would be in your favor it does not always come out like that.

Real World: I think that we can apply this in our everyday lifes by looking and taking guesses and then seeing our results of things. For example if we are moving something with an object on top of it then we know it has a good change of fall it we do not carry it out right.

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