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John Guo
Mrs. Stevens
Life Science
31 January 2018
Once I went to the beach and was sitting on the sand, I was building a sandcastle on the
seashore. When I was holding the sand. I suddenly found out that the sand in my hand felt good
when I was massaging it. So I thought “You know that water and sand are two different kinds of
substance, so they can roll at different speeds.” I hypothesized that by putting sand and water
into 2 water bottles and put the water bottle on a slope, than push them together, the water will
What is Gravity?
On the earth, the power that object received from the earth’s core is called gravity.
Anything that has weight has gravity. And the heavier object will get stronger gravitation.
Gravity pulls objects toward each other, therefore someone jump up will not enter into the
universe. There also have gravity in the universe. Like gravity keeps all the planet rotate around
the sun and an object can have different weight on different planet. (What).
The answer will be no. Every different object fall at the different rate. The most
important reason depend on the object’s weight. The heavier object will faster than the lighter
object. The surface area also can affect the speed of the rolling object. The object has more
surface area will has more friction, and the rate will get lower. (Free Fall).
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When an object rub with another object’s surface, the force that hinder their relative
movement are called friction. How does it affect of rolling object? While there are two possible
can affect the object. First one is the surface. The object can roll faster on a smooth surface. And
second is the more pressure that object get, the more friction it will produce (Ghose).
Weight in fact can not affect the speed of rolling object. When an object is rolling on a
surface, this kind of friction are called rolling friction. There are only two possible can affect the
rolling object. One is the surface’s smooth degree, like when an object is rolling on a rough
surface, it will slow down its speed until stop. And another reason is pressure. The more pressure
Gravity is the force attract the object and let it has weight. In this experiment it need a
slope. When the object is on the top of the slope, gravity let the object perpendicular to the slope
and let the object slide in standards. And because of the object slide in standards, gravity also
give the premise of friction. Without gravity, the object will out of control, it can not stay on the
In this experiment, first find a slope and use a ruler to measure its length. Then put the
object on the top of the slope. Prepare a timer before someone push the slope. Start the timer
when the object start rolling and record the seconds it expend. After that, use the length of the
slope divided by the seconds it expend. Like the length of the slope is 10 m, and the object uses
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I hypothesized that, If I push 2 bottle down to the slope at the same time, (one bottle
with water and one with sand), then the bottle with water will roll faster. When the slope is 1
meter long and it’s gradient is 35 degrees, the speed of the bottle with water will be 1.5 second.
The speed of the bottle with sand will be 2.5 seconds and the bottle with sand is slower than the
bottle with water. It is lower because the sand had multiple friction when it was rolling. My
Works Cited
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spaceplace.nasa.gov/what-is-gravity/en/.
“Free Fall and Air Resistance.” The Physics Classroom, 23 Oct. 2017,
www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-3/Free-Fall-and-Air-Resistance.
www.livescience.com/37161-what-is-friction.html.
www.csun.edu/scied/4-discrpeant-event/how_fast_do_things_fall/.
www.dummies.com/education/science/physics/how-gravity-affects-the-acceleration-of-a
n-object-on-an-inclined-plane/.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/speedy-science-how-does-acceleration-affect-distanc
e/.