1.

Trajectory of a small ball is a path followed by an

object in projectile motion. In this experiment, an
incline ramp was used to create a slope pathway
for the ball and follow by projectile motion as it
leaves the ramp. From the data collected, the initial
velocity of the marble ball is determined.
2. Projectile motion is a form of motion in which an
object or particle is thrown near the earth's surface,
and it moves along a curved path under the action
of gravity only. According to Ideal projectile motion
states that there is no air resistance and no change in
gravitational acceleration. When the vertical distance
between the bottom of the ramp and the top of the
board is 65.0cm (+-0.1cm), the marble ball travelled
with a velocity of 0.906m/s and makes a small mark on
the blank paper which the horizontal distance between
the palm line and mark on the paper is 32.4cm (+0.1cm).

3. From the equation (

), it shows that y is directly

proportional to x. Thus,the higher the vertical

distance between the bottom of the ramp and the
top of the board,x , the higher the horizontal
distance between the palm line and mark on the
paper,y.
4.

According to the collected data and the plotted

graph it is obviously that the longer the Y (cm) the
longer the X (cm) which the Y/X is linearly
proportional to the X (cm). From the graph, the yintercept shows the value for the theoretical
constant,k.

5. However, this experiment has some mistake due to

human factor. For example, the ball may not place
at the same spot each time during the experiment.
During experiment, some precaution we should
take to gain the actual result. For example we must
make sure that the position of stand with wooden
board is only change in the height of it but never
moved the angel between the table and the

wooden block. During experiment, we make sure the

position let the ball rolling down is always same.