Soup Can Lab
Research Question:
Does the height of the ramp affect the time it takes for the soup can to roll down the ramp?
Hypothesis:
As the height of the ramp increases, the time it takes for the soup cans to roll down will decrease.
Materials:
- 1 Meter Wooden Board
- Meter Stick
- 5 four centimeter high textbooks
- 3 Campbell Soup Cans, one Tomato Soup, Cream of Mushroom, and Chicken Noodle Soup
- Stopwatch
Procedure:
1. Stack 5 textbooks and place the wooden board in a ramp like fashion, going down towards the table.
2. Measure height of stack of textbooks, and record.
3. Take the can of Tomato soup, and record the time it takes to reach the table using the stopwatch.
4. Repeat step 3 using the Cream of Mushroom and Chicken Noodle Soup, and record data.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 using 2,3, and 4 books, and record data.
2. Measure height of stack of textbooks, and record.
3. Take the can of Tomato soup, and record the time it takes to reach the table using the stopwatch.
4. Repeat step 3 using the Cream of Mushroom and Chicken Noodle Soup, and record data.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 using 2,3, and 4 books, and record data.
Data:
The general trend of the graph shows a negative slope between time and height. This shows that as the height of the ramp increased, the time it takes for the soup cans to roll down the ramp decreases. Three types of soup were measured which all showed the same decrease when the number of books increasing, showing that the results are consistent among different types of soup.