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Design Your Own Experiment

How to Select a Topic Relating to this Concept

The topic of time has many angles that you can explore. You could examine areas related to the mechanical property of time, such as in a watch or grandfather clock. Other topics you could explore include cultural differences in keeping time, the inventions of keeping time and how they have impacted everyday life; and the theory of time travel.

Check the For More Information section and talk with your science or physics teacher to learn more about time. If you want to build something for an experiment, such as a timekeeping device, make sure to check with an adult before using any tools.

Steps in the Scientific Method

To do an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise you might not be sure what question you are answering, what you are or should be measuring, or what your findings...

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1. Introduction
2. Breaking up time
3. Swing time
4. A mess of times
5. Space-time: It's all relative
6. Atomic time
7. Experiment 1 - Pendulums: How do the length, weight, and swing angle of a pendulum affect its oscillation time?
8. Experiment 2 - Water Clock: Does the amount of water in a water clock affect its accuracy?
9. Design Your Own Experiment