Mass Spring Lab

On 9/30 we will not have class, but we were assigned an online lab called the mass spring lab. Upon arriving at the sit I was trying to discover what it is we were supposed to do, so I put the different sized weights on the springs and changed the friction and the softness of spring 3. The smaller the weight applied to the spring, the more it would bounce up and down. The heavier the weight applied to the spring the less it would bounce. The higher amount of friction that was place on the spring the less the weight would bounce. If the spring was soft the more it would stretch, and if it was hard it would bounce with less stretching of the spring. When placing lots of friction with a hard spring the weight would bounce really fast. When there was no friction and a soft spring the weight would bounce slower and less than when there was a hard spring. I also watched the difference between the springs moving in real time, 1/4 time, and 1/6 time. It was really interesting to see how the different weights, friction, no-friction, and softer and harder weights affected how the weights and springs bounced. I can see that this would be a fun andgreat learning activity for students that I will teach in the future because I enjoyed it myself. Visually seeing how friction, weight, and thickness of the springs all acted together was easy to understand.