aacceleration due to gravity lab report
Acceleration Due to Gravity
Conducted on October 6th, 2014
Objective: The object of the experiment is to determine whether or not objects fall freely at the same rate and speed. Measure and calculate the time in which it takes random objects to hit the ground from a certain height and determine if the objects have the same rate of motion or not.
Materials:
1. Meter Stick
2. Stopwatch
3. Wallet
4. Quarter
5. Tape
6. Hot sauce packet from Chinese food delivery
7. Container of wipes
8. Football
9. Golf ball
10. pen
11. Nail
12. Piece of paper
Procedure:
1. Gather your materials.
2. Find a location suitable for dropping your object.
3. Set a vertical distance from which you will drop your random objects. Use the same distance for all objects.
4. Drop each object from the top of your distance and have a partner time with a stop watch the amount of time the objects take to fall. The piece of paper should be the last to be timed.
5. Record ten trials for each object.
Data & Observations: There are a variety of factors that affected the outcome of my data. Some were:
Failing to release the object at the perfect time.
Not starting or stopping the stop watch at the perfect time.
Wind resistance might have affected a few trials.
Perhaps the object wasn’t dropped from the correct height every trial.
Below are the calculations and measurements of how long the random objects dropped from a distance of 1 meter high took to reach the ground. The trial number is on the left side and the time in seconds is on the right side of the chart.
Hot Sauce
1
0.6s
2
0.68s
3
0.68s
4
0.58s
5
0.49s
6
0.5s
7
0.73s
8
0.62s
9
0.68s
10
0.5s
Pen
1
0.66s
2
0.84s
3
0.68s
4
0.66s
5
0.63s
6
0.69s
7
0.7s
8
0.74s
9
0.66s
10
0.65s
Trial # →
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Avg.
Pen
4.7
4.9
4.3
4.6
5
4.2
4.1
3.7
4.6
4.6
4
Golf ball
17.3
9.5
18.4
4.3
4.3
6.4
9.5
8
4.3
6.4
8.8
Football
5.6
9.9
5
5.6
4.3
7.1
4.9
5.2
5.6
16.3
7
nail
4.9
5.4
3
4.9
6.4
6.6
Conducted on October 6th, 2014
Objective: The object of the experiment is to determine whether or not objects fall freely at the same rate and speed. Measure and calculate the time in which it takes random objects to hit the ground from a certain height and determine if the objects have the same rate of motion or not.
Materials:
1. Meter Stick
2. Stopwatch
3. Wallet
4. Quarter
5. Tape
6. Hot sauce packet from Chinese food delivery
7. Container of wipes
8. Football
9. Golf ball
10. pen
11. Nail
12. Piece of paper
Procedure:
1. Gather your materials.
2. Find a location suitable for dropping your object.
3. Set a vertical distance from which you will drop your random objects. Use the same distance for all objects.
4. Drop each object from the top of your distance and have a partner time with a stop watch the amount of time the objects take to fall. The piece of paper should be the last to be timed.
5. Record ten trials for each object.
Data & Observations: There are a variety of factors that affected the outcome of my data. Some were:
Failing to release the object at the perfect time.
Not starting or stopping the stop watch at the perfect time.
Wind resistance might have affected a few trials.
Perhaps the object wasn’t dropped from the correct height every trial.
Below are the calculations and measurements of how long the random objects dropped from a distance of 1 meter high took to reach the ground. The trial number is on the left side and the time in seconds is on the right side of the chart.
Hot Sauce
1
0.6s
2
0.68s
3
0.68s
4
0.58s
5
0.49s
6
0.5s
7
0.73s
8
0.62s
9
0.68s
10
0.5s
Pen
1
0.66s
2
0.84s
3
0.68s
4
0.66s
5
0.63s
6
0.69s
7
0.7s
8
0.74s
9
0.66s
10
0.65s
Trial # →
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Avg.
Pen
4.7
4.9
4.3
4.6
5
4.2
4.1
3.7
4.6
4.6
4
Golf ball
17.3
9.5
18.4
4.3
4.3
6.4
9.5
8
4.3
6.4
8.8
Football
5.6
9.9
5
5.6
4.3
7.1
4.9
5.2
5.6
16.3
7
nail
4.9
5.4
3
4.9
6.4
6.6