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Rubber Band Lab

As the rubber band gets thinner, the farther it'll shoot. Elastic potential energy is the potential energy stored inside the rubber band when it is stretched, the elastic potential energy increases.

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Rubber Band Lab

As the rubber band gets thinner, the farther it'll shoot. Elastic potential energy is the potential energy stored inside the rubber band when it is stretched, the elastic potential energy increases.

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Rubber Band Lab

Question: Which rubber band will go the furthest? Prediction: We think the thin rubber band will go the farthest because it stretches the most. Hypothesis: As the rubber band gets thinner, the farther itll shoot. Materials: three types of rubber bands, one centimeter ruler, measuring tape, masking tape, phone Variables: Independent: size of rubber band Dependent: how far the rubber band will go Control: distance the rubber band is pulled- 14cm, angle of the ruler- middle, how far down the rubber band is pulled down- two boxes, starting point- 38 cm off the measuring tape, type of ruler-amos, measure from the front of the rubber band when it lands, same side of the measuring tape- centimeters, starting point of the rubber band- 38 cm

Observations: Rubber Band Experiment Data Table Type of Rubber Band Skinny Rubber Band Medium Rubber Band Fat Rubber Band Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Average

5.6 m

5.35 m

5.3 m

5.4 m

4.96 m

5.49 m

4.8 m

5.1 m

4.1 m

4.1 m

4.5 m

4.2 m

Emily Schern shooting rubber bands, in the same position as always. Keeping her feet planted at the same place and only moving when we needed to find the rubber band.

Taped measuring tape down for exact measurement. When we taped the measuring tape down we were able to measure a lot more valid measures.

Here we are getting ready to measure after Emily shoots the rubber band- controlling all the details and keeping everything the same.

Measuring exactly the same length for stretching the rubber band for each of the rubber bands. Although we dont have a picture of this, we measured the rubberband from the back. We tried to keep everything the same.

Conclusion: We found out that like we expected, the thinner rubber band went the furthest. You can see in the data table above, that the thicker the rubber band gets, the less distance it goes. It was all about elastic potential energy. You can pull back a thicker rubber band farther than you can with a thinner one, which makes me think that the elastic is tighter and sturdier. We also learned

about elastic potential energy which is the potential energy stored inside the rubber band when it is stretched, the elastic potential energy increases. Now, from the data collected, I can see that in one of the trials for the medium rubber band, the second trial is almost 60 centimeters away from the first and third. This makes me wonder if Emily had used more power in shooting that one rubber band, or if I measured wrong. In the beginning, we didnt want to stretch the rubber band too much because we thought that we might rip it apart. Then after a few trials with the thin rubber band, I realized that it could go much further. Still, we didnt want to take TOO big of a risk and pull it back 8 more centimeters, so we mulled it back 4. We had scraped the first trial, but I wish we hadnt so I could compare the data tables and see what happened.

New Questions/ Designs for next time: New questions I have are: 1) If we had more trials, would the average change? 2) If different people were to do the shooting, would the distance change? 3) If we used different brands of rubber bands would it change? If I could do this experiment again, I would change some things like controlling the variables better. We found out on our second day into this experiment that we had to actually look at where the tip of the rubber band was starting, not our feet. If we measured from our feet, that would give us a totally different answer than if we measured from the start of the ruler.

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