Newton's Laws Of Motion Lab Report

The purpose of this lab was to learn about Newton’s laws of motion by completing an experiment, to see how the forces act on objects. The independent variable of this experiment is the type and amount of materials used for the interior of the vehicle (out of the material list) and how they were used. The dependent variable is how and if the interior of the vehicle protected the egg from getting cracked. The controlled variables of this experiment were the height that the vehicle was dropped from, the maximum number and type of materials that were allowed to be used, and the surface the vehicle was dropped onto (a hard surface such as concrete). When I dropped the vehicle with the egg inside from eight feet, the vehicle accelerated towards the ground. Then when it hit the ground, the ground pushed back up
I placed the egg, holded by the cotton swabs, in one of the cups and then slid the other cup on top of it. Before I closed it all the way, I spread all 10 cotton balls and both tissues around the seam area to help keep the egg and cotton swabs from moving. Then I taped it closed. I learned about Newton’s laws of motion, by observing how they acted on the vehicle in this lab. Specifically in this lab, I dropped the vehicle and observed how gravity made the vehicle accelerate towards the ground. Then I watched how the vehicle rapidly decellarated as the vehicle landed and the ground pushed back up on the vehicle, causing the vehicle to bounce before coming to a stop. I learned how inertia made it so that if I had dropped the egg in the cups without any interior protection, the egg would have kept moving towards the ground until it hit the bottom of the cup, and cracking. But with the interior protection in the vehicle, the movement of the egg was stoppped very shortly after the movement of the cup stopped, because the objects inside of the cup were pushing back on the egg and keeping it mostly in the same