You Could Play Around with the Experimental Set-up

Question 1

Why would you want to change different things in this experiment?

Answer 1

To investigate other factors that might affect the cars motion

Question 2

What do you need to ensure if you do change something?

Answer 2

Keep everything else in the experiment the same

Question 3

How could you see if mass affects the speed of the car?

Answer 3

Loads weight onto it

Question 4

How could you see if friction affects the motion of a car?

Answer 4

Place different materials on the ramp - ensure they’re laid fast and don’t change the angle of the ramp

Question 5

How could you see investigate the acceleration of a car due to gravity?

Answer 5

Starting it off higher up the ramp and seeing how this affects its average speed between the gates

Question 6

What could you change about the ramp?

Answer 6

The angle to see how that affects to the cars speed down the slope

Question 7

Why would you try it with different cars?

Answer 7

How the size, shape and weight of the car affects how fast it goes down the ramp