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Lab Experiment on Inclined Planes


For this experiment you will need:
  • A piece of string
  • A 30 cm long wooden board
  • Five Textbooks
  • 1.0 kg mass

Trial 1 Steps:

  1. Stack up three of your five textbooks
  2. Get your 30 cm long wooden board and set up a ramp from your desk to the top of your books
  3. Get your 1.0 kg mass and hook it to your piece of string, then slowly pull it up your ramp
  4. Once you've reached the top of your ramp, add your fourth textbook

Trial 2 Steps:
  1. Add a fourth textbook to your old ramp and re-set up(this ramp should be steeper than the one from trial 1)
  2. Get your 1.0 kg mass and hook it to your piece of string and slowly pull it up your ramp
  3. Once you've reached the top add your fifth textbook
Trial 3 Steps:
  1. Add a fifth textbook to your trail 2 ramp and re-set up(this ramp should be the steepest of all trials)
  2. Get your 1.0 kg mass and hook it to your piece of string, then slowly pull it up your ramp
  3. Once you've reached the top. You are done
Did you realize that the first time you pulled your 1.0 kg mass up the ramp it was pretty easy, and it didn't require much effort? That is because your trail one ramp had a gentle slope so you didn't have to use much effort but it took you a pretty long time.

Your trial 2 had your ramp a bit steeper than your first trail. It was a bit hard this time because your ramp didn't have a gentle slope as your first trial did. This trail had a steep slope allowing you to get to the top faster but it requires more effort when you pull it up the ramp

Trail 3, your last trail. This trail had the steepest ramp of all. Did you realize that this trail took less time than the others? And that this trial required the most effort? This trail had a very steep ramp and took the least time. But it also took the most effort
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