Marshmallows Experiment Lab Report

The balance of an object mainly involves the dissemination of mass in the object. In a myriad of aspects, balancing yourself or an object can be extremely different especially when we all odds such as gravity is stacked against you. As an example, some teenagers find it hard to balance school, sports and a job. With so much stress and various loads of duties it becomes too heavy for them to handle, and without the right balancing techniques, they can certainly tip over and fall. The same idea applies to the human body and objects in different situations. You find it surprisingly easy walking on the edge of a curb with a heavy backpack in front of you and at the same notion, find it hard for you to walk on the edge of the curb with the backpack

The independent variable of this experiment was the placement of the marshmallows and the amount of marshmallows used. The dependent variable was balance of the structure. The methods used to go through with this experiment was quite simple. First, on a skewer, I placed one marshmallow in the middle and one on each end. Second, I placed the tip of my finger under the middle marshmallow and tried to balance the structure on your finger. This was the starting point for building all the other structures. Once I could balance the basic structure, I poked a toothpick pointing up into the top of the marshmallow in the center of the skewer. After, I added one marshmallow on top of the toothpick and push it down until it touches the marshmallow in the middle of the original structure. Next, I made another basic structure and poked a toothpick into each end marshmallow. I added one marshmallow to the end of each of the toothpicks and connect the marshmallows with a skewer so I got a rectangular shape. Then I placed the tip of my finger under the original balance point and try to balance this structure on my finger. Once I could balance it, I determined the center of mass of your structure. I added a toothpick to the top of the marshmallow in the center of the original skewer and poked the toothpick in, pointing up, and push a marshmallow down on it. Next, I placed the tip of my finger under the original balance point. I saw if it balanced or not, and once it did I added one more marshmallow to the toothpick and repeated previous step. After, I started with another basic structure and this time, I poked a skewer into the bottom of each marshmallow on the ends of the first skewer. I connected the two skewers together with a marshmallow, which resulted into a triangular structure. Once again, I placed the tip of my finger under the original balance point and tried to balance the