You Could Play Around with the Experimental Set-up Flashcards
Why would you want to change different things in this experiment?
To investigate other factors that might affect the cars motion
What do you need to ensure if you do change something?
Keep everything else in the experiment the same
How could you see if mass affects the speed of the car?
Loads weight onto it
How could you see if friction affects the motion of a car?
Place different materials on the ramp - ensure they’re laid fast and don’t change the angle of the ramp
How could you see investigate the acceleration of a car due to gravity?
Starting it off higher up the ramp and seeing how this affects its average speed between the gates
What could you change about the ramp?
The angle to see how that affects to the cars speed down the slope
Why would you try it with different cars?
How the size, shape and weight of the car affects how fast it goes down the ramp
