Wednesday, September 24, 2008

What did we learn in the rubber band experiments?

We spent a lot of time in the last week working with rubber bands and studying forces.

What did we learn about force?

What did we learn about rubber bands?

And, most importantly, have we determined any relationship between the mass of an object and how far a rubber band will stretch with the added mass?

7 comments:

Alex J said...
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Alex J said...

that fource invloves at of push and pull. Rubber Bands can hold alot of weight. and that the higher your mass increases the longer your rubber band will stretch

Michelle W said...
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Ariel Weitz said...

The thing we learned about force was how force can affect certain objects (in this cas it was rubber bands)
The thing we learned about rubber bands is that it takes a WHOLE lot of weights in grams to stretch them apart to make the break.
Lastley we can do it because of the weights of the different objects and how far a rubber band can stretch (depending on the rubber band).

gavin hart said...

I learnd that rubber bands can stretch very fare wihtought breaking.

i learned that there are many diffrent kinds of force during the rubber band experiment.

i do not think we have fully detirmend how fare a rubber band can stretch becouse in alot of our tests that we did not get to finish they did not snap. But in the ones that we did we got good results and we found out that maybe if you add alot more wight than a more grduall pace that it will snap esier.

James said...

we learned that force can be a either push or pull. We also learned that every force has an opposite.

We learned that rubberbands are made diffrently so that may have an effect on how fast it snaps or how slow it snaps.

Michelle W said...

When working with the rubber bands i learned about how forces work. This involved a lot of pushing and pulling. I don't think we really came to any conculsion about how much weight it takes for two rubber bands tied together to break.