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    What is this activity?



    The task should you choose to accept it:

    Your goal in this experiment is to predict where a marble will land when released from a certain height on an inclined plane.

     Sample of 19th Century Inclined Plane

    The final test of your measurements and computations will be to position an empty soup can so that the marble lands in the can the first time!

    Can you predict where the marble will land?













     



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    Dr. Danine Ezell
    Dr. Jerry Lederman
    Jeff Major

    The Preuss School UCSD
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