Forces Virtual Experiment
P7 Homework January 11th, 2007You are going to carry out an experiment to find out on which surface a sleigh will travel furthest. You are going to start the sleigh moving with a push. To make sure this is a fair test you will need to have the same size push and the same sleigh each time.You will work through the activity, following the tasks written (and spoken) at the top of the screen. Remember to record the distances travelled (or flags reached) on paper.
When you have completed the activity you can now submit a comment to the Blog explaining why the sleigh travelled further on a particular surface and why it did not travel as far on another surface.
If you are unsure of anything either ask your teacher or leave a comment on the blog. Sleigh Experiment
All answers are to be posted by Thursday 18th January.
P.S. Remember this time all your comments/posts will only be shown on Friday 19th January. i.e after the due date.
January 12th, 2007 at 10:48 am
I have enjoyed playing the game and taking the quiz. I learned that the bigger the push the further the car goes and ice makes the car go the furthest.
Rachael.B
January 12th, 2007 at 10:57 am
I learned that how far it goes depends on the surface and the strenth of the push.
January 12th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
The sleigh traveled furthest on ice because it is a smooth surface and lest on carpet because it is rough. Alison
January 13th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I have learned that a sleigh can’t travel far on carpet.I have also learned that a sleigh can tavel faster on ice than viynl.
I have enjoyed this game a lot!
January 13th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
i enjoyed playing the game and learned that it was mostly the push that made it go far
January 14th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
It went futher on ice which is the smoothest surface of the four. The smoother the surface the less friction.It did not travel as far on vinyl, wood or carpet because they are rougher. The carpet was the roughest surface and the sleigh travelled the least on it. Friction slows things down.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Some of the children are having difficulties getting their replies on the blog. This is a “test ” reply to see what is going on.
Mrs M.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
The car travelled furthest on the ice because ice is slippy which causes the car to move faster.The carpet was the worst surface to move the car on because carpets can be rough which means the car will slow down.
January 15th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
The furthest the sleigh traveled was on ice with a big push and the smallest distance it travelled was on carpet with a small push. The sleigh didn’t travel as far on the carpet as on the ice because the ice had low friction and the carpet had high friction and the higher the friction the slower something can move oh it.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I found out that the sleigh goes further and shorter on different sufaces
January 15th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
the best surface is ice because its slidy then it is vinyl because thats not as slidy next wood because thats quite rough finally carpet becaus thats very rough
January 16th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I learned that the car travels faster on the smooth surface of the ice and slower on the rough carpet. The friction is greater on the ice and less on the carpet.
January 16th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
The sleigh travelled furtest on the ice as it was the slidiest and it travelled the slowest on the carpet as it was rough and hard for the sleigh to travel on
January 16th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
The sleigh travelled furthest on the ice.
It travelled the slowest on the carpet.
1.vinal-green flag
2.wood-orange flag
3.ice-blue flag
4.carpet-0 flags
January 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
The carpet material was the worst surface because it was rough.
Ice was the best surface because it was slippy and smooth.
January 16th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Conor Grant. Some are more slidier than others and some have more friction than others. You must use the red light and the surface is ice.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:52 am
i think this way of homework is fun and i learnedthat forces can be fun too
January 17th, 2007 at 11:09 am
I found out that ice has the least friction because the surface is very slippy for the toy car.I also found out that carpet has the most friction.
January 17th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I thought ice went really fast. The wood went nearly furthor than ice.The carpet went least furthor.The vinyl went good.
January 17th, 2007 at 11:20 am
I found out the carpet went more friction.
I found out the ice went less friction.
January 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
I learned that ice has less friction and capet has the most. Beacuse ice gose faster than carpet. The game has helped me to learn about friction and think we should get more computer home work beacuse we all learn a lot.
January 17th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I think that the game was very interesting.I Learned that carpet has most friction and ice has less friction
January 17th, 2007 at 11:42 am
I found that the toy car will go far on ice and go the least distance on carpet.
January 17th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
When giving the sleigh a small push (pulling the red handle to the yellow light),this is how far (what flags reached) the sleigh went on these surfaces…
Vinyl – It went past the red (first) flag and reached the green (second) flag.
Wood – It reached the red (first) flag.
Carpet – It only went a few centimetres.
Ice – It went past the red (first) and the green (second) flag and reached the blue (third and last) flag.
When giving the sleigh a big push (pulling the red handle to the red light),this is how far (what flags reached) the sleigh went on these surfaces…
Vinyl – It went past the red (first) and green (second) flag and reached the blue (third and last) flag.
Wood – It went past the red (first) flag and reached the green (second) flag.
Carpet – It reached the red (first) flag.
Ice – It went past all of the flags and zoomed right off the screen.
I think with the same push, the sleigh travels different distances on different surfaces because some of the surfaces are smoother than others and the sleigh needs a smooth, hard or possibly slippy surface to go far on. That is why the sleigh worked best on the ice and went right off the screen with a big push. The sleigh worked quite good on the vinyl because it is quite hard and smooth, the sleigh didn’t work that good on wood because it isn’t that smooth but is hard, but the sleigh hardly worked on the carpet because carpet is soft and rough. The sleigh went further with a bigger push on the surfaces because it had more force to help it move.
January 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
it went further on ice than it did on carpet because if the surface has less friction the sleigh will move faster and the carpet has lots of friction so the sleigh does not move as fast.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
vinyl – little push – green flag
big push – blue flag
wood – little push – orange flag
big push – green flag
carpet- little push – hardly moves
big push – orange flag
ice – little push – blue flag
big push – off screen
Because of the differences in friction each surface.
Ice – big push
January 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
i thought the forces game was great and i thought ice would be the surface with the least friction and i was right i also got 7 out of 10 in the quiz it was fun
January 17th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
the one with the most fiction was the carpet and the one with the least friction is the ice .
January 17th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
My sleigh travelled farthest on ice, then vinyl then wood. It travelled the least on the carpet.
January 17th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
It travelled further on some than others because different surfaces caused different levels of friction. Ice had the least and the carpet had the most.
January 17th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Lee Wilson:
i think the sleigh travelled further on ice because it is easier for the sleigh to slide along a slippy surface.
i think the sleigh went slower on carpet because it is difficult for the sleigh to move along a rough surface.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
i thought that the sleigh moved fastest on ice and i thought the it moved slowest on carpet i really enjoyed the game thank you.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I think the ice had the least friction and carpet had the most i liked the game.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
The experiment was good and the ice was the fastest and the other ones didn’t go that fast because the surface was different.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Yellow Light – Vinyl, Green Flag
Red Light – Vinyl , Blue Flag
Yellow Light – Wood , Orange Flag
Red Light – Wood , Green Flag
Yellow Light – Carpet , doesn’t travel very far only about 2 cm or so
Red Light – Carpet , Orange Flag
Yellow Light – Ice , Blue Flag
Red Light – Ice , Past the Blue Flag
By Laurie
January 17th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
The sleigh went the furthest on the surface made of ice. The surface made of carpet made the sleigh go the smallest way. The carpet is made up of many fibres so it stops the sleigh through friction but the ice is smooth so it goes faster and further.
January 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
The harder the push the further it went and the smoother the ground the further it went. The ice made it go out of the screen when it was pushed from the red light.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I think the sleigh went faster on the ice because it has less friction than all the others the slowest one was the carpet because it has the most friction
January 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
with the vinal=blue falg witch went very fast ,
with the wood=green which was fast but slow ,
ith the carpet=orange flag which was really slow ,
the ice=blue flag which went very very fast.
January 18th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I think that the sleigh went better on the Vinyl and the Ice because it was easier to move.I think the sleigh went slower on the Wood and Carpet because there was not a lot of flat surface on them
January 18th, 2007 at 10:00 am
i discovered that wood isnt good for pushing things
January 18th, 2007 at 10:08 am
i noticed that it gos the furlest on the ice and the vinal.And it gos qite far with the wood to but all the rest ar slow and thay dont go that far and i fink the blog is a littel fun.
January 18th, 2007 at 10:10 am
I discovered that the carpet goses less further than all the rest of the other surfacess.Ice goses furthest than all the rest rest of the other surfaces . vinyl and wood go abit the same but wood gose less than vinyl.I noticed that less friction gose more further than more friction.I think .
January 18th, 2007 at 10:47 am
When i done the experiment i found out that the sleigh went faster when it was on the ice because the ice was slidy.The slowest suface was the carpet because the carpet stopped the sleigh from going.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
it traveled further on the ice cause it has less friction & it just glides across the ice.
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
i really enjoyed the this task