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DJ Walker Mr. Fullerton Joey Mantione 10/3/2014 Physics at Irondequoit High School? Breaking new at Irondequoit High school. Young Physicists Joey Mantione and DJ Walker have found a novel way to calculate the acceleration due to gravity. They worked countless minutes to establish and create experiment procedure that worked almost as hard as they did. The procedure, although challenging, was done at a timely manne…

Matthew Fiordeliso Grace Saxby Xiao meng jiang Danny Waheibi Breaking News 4 high school students had discovered the acceleration due to gravity what they had used was a dodgeball a ruler to measure the height from the dodgeball to the floor and a stopwatch to calculate the time. What they did was dropped the dodgeball and measured how long it had taken for it to hit the ground. They did that 3 times and found the average time 0.64 seconds. what they discovered was the acceleration due to gravity is 11.9 meters a second however, it seems that they had some error which turned out to be a 21.3% error because some scientists just moments ago found out that the tr…

Trevor H., Sabrina D., Dan V. Vertical Jump Test Lab During this lab, our group noticed several things that have high percent error. If we could redesign the lab, one major thing we could incorporate is using a tandem vertical jump tester instead of using tape. This allows us to find the maximum height the person reaches because with using tape, you don’t necessarily mark the max height you reach, since you’re only at max height for a split second. Also, instead of using a stopwatch, we could have used a more advanced laser system, in which the laser marks the exact time you leave the ground and return to the ground. Overall, using both these new …

The lab involving the groups jumping has a very high percent error due to uncontrollable factors. For one, it is difficult to record the exact time a person is in the air for. Timers may be off, or a person’s reaction time to hit the timer is not exact. This makes for inaccuracies within the experiment. Another factor that increases the percent error is if the person takes a step on accident, this may give them a much different result than those people who are standing still. If this lab could be redesigned, a more accurate form of timing would be very helpful. One such way to do this is using a timing app on your phone which can record the time you’re your immediate …

BREAKING NEWS FROM IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOL This week, young physicists have been calculating acceleration due to gravity for their kinematics and gravity lab project. First, they were given the task to collect all of their materials, including: -Gator skin ball -Meter sticks - A Stop Watch They would measure the distance of how high the ball was off the ground, using the meter stick from the ground to the bottom of the ball that is touching the ceiling, a student holding it while standing on a desk. The person standing on the desk will then drop the ball, recording the time between when the ball was dropped until it touched the ground. They repeated the process thr…

Breaking News This just in from Irondequoit High school, we have found the acceleration due to gravity. Physicists Peter Martin and Mike Vrooman discovered this finding with a state-of-the-art lab. Materials consisted of a gator skin ball, a stopwatch, and a meter stick. They conducted the experiment first by measuring a set distance to drop the ball from. Then one of the physicists would drop the ball from that set height and start the stopwatch at the same time. They would stop the stopwatch when the ball hit the ground. They replicated the test several times to filter out the error. Then using the kinematic equation of d=vit + 1/2at^2 and their knowledge of the time i…

Breaking news High School Students Find the Acceleration due to Gravity: Recently, students at Irondequoit High School have performed an experiment that led them to discover the acceleration due to gravity. The students conducted this test in room 3033, using merely a foam ball, a meter stick, and a stop watch. The students had one group member stand on a desk, holding the ball in the air. Another student then measured the distance from the floor to the bottom of the ball. After having discovered the distance, the student holding a ball, as well as two other students, timed how long it took for the ball to hit the ground. The students performed four trials to get the mo…

BREAKING NEWS recently three students, Mike Belmont, Zach Haight, and Jake Barnes have found acceleration by gravity ina series of steps including using meter sticks to determine the height from the ball too the ground from the cieling of a classroom. by doing so they measured the time it took for the ball to hit the ground and also measured in metersthe height of the ball off the ground. they determined the acceleration by using a formula to determine distance and used conversions to find the acceleration of 8.98 meters per seconds squared. we can use this to determine acceleration on earth due to gravity. the percent error was 8.48 percent from the actual acceleration …

Article: Breaking News! West Irondequoit physics students have calculated the acceleration due to gravity! In a physics lab students participated in, they used only a stopwatch to find the acceleration due to gravity. They dropped a ball from the ceiling of their classroom and used only the initial velocity, height of ceilings and the time it took for the ball to drop from the ceiling to find the acceleration due to gravity with an equation. When calculating this, they had only 3.98% error from the actual 9.81 m/s2. They got 10.2 m/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity. The students that preformed this lab had a breaking discovery that could change physics f…

The two methods of measuring your standing and jumping quantities and then finding the difference, and timing how long one is in the air when jumping creates a very high percentage error. We had the percentage errors of 42%, 33% and 55%. These errors could have happened by a multitude of ways. People have too slowly of reaction rates/reflexives that could accurately measure the time someone is in the air. Also when we jump we might bend our knees making us stay in the air longer. Another source of error is in the fact that when we jumped we reached one hand up to put the tape on the wall. But when we time our jumping, it’s merely a measure of how long are feet have left…

This afternoon at Irondequoit High School, students found the acceleration of a ball dropping from the ceiling. The students then compared their acceleration of gravity to the accepted acceleration of gravity (9.81 meters per second squared). In order to do this one student held the ball at the student, as another measured the distance from the ball to the ground. The student holding the ball also used a stop watch to calculate how long it took the ball to drop to the ground. After doing this about three times, the students used each trial to calculate the average time. Then they used the time in a kinematic equation to find the acceleration of the ball (d=Vi*T+1/2*a*T^2)…

Breaking news students at Irondequoit high school have discovered acceleration due to gravity to be around 10.8 meters/Second. The way it was calculated was we took a two meter stick along with a one meter stick at the bottom. We measured it from the bottom of the gator skin ball to the floor and having read 2.56 meters. From there we calculated the amount of time it took the ball to hit the ground. With three trial the students received an average of .687 seconds. From there the students calculated the Accelerating by d/.5t2=a by substituting 2.56 meters for d, and .687 seconds for t. after calculations they arrived at their answer of 10.8 meters per second with only s p…

The breaking news is in! physicists in Irondequoit High School have discovered a way to calculate the acceleration due to gravity. with precise accuracy with only an error of 3.2% Ally, Hannah and Mary E. have calculated the average of acceleration to be 9.50m/s^2. this was done by using a magical red ball and a timer to determine the acceleration. they had to endure standing on a table and measuring the height of the ball to the floor and then using the timer, dropping the ball and timing how long it took for the ball to reach the floor. 5 trials later they received an average of .724 seconds overall. next, the calculators were whipped out as they used the equation d=(vi…

For this project we measured the speed of cars on cooper road. We wanted to see whether cars were following the speed limit. We measured out 10 meters2 people used stopwatches measuring the time it took for the front of the car to go 10 meters. Also when people were timing the car, another was recording the details of the license plate and color. Took the average of the 2 measurements Converted our data into meters per second This is the data we found Car Distance (m) Time (s) Speed (m/s) B7E 2186 10 0.9 11.11111 FY75391 10 1.02 …

Introduction: This lab was designed to test us on our ability to use the formula for speed based on data collected in a natural environment that we used to conduct this experiment. By collecting the speed of ten different cars with two stop watches, we have data that we will use to work with the formula. Procedure: Measure a distance along the side of a road between two set points. Gave two people stop watches. Start the stop watch as a car passes the first point; stop the watch as it passes the second. Record the time it took for the car to cover the distance, making sure you get the data from both stop watches. Calculate the average speed of each car using the…

Problem and project: Six groups of four students are given stop watches and a measuring tape in order to plan and set up, within ten minutes, an experiment to utilize measuring strategy to determine the speed of ten vehicles that pass by (without use of a speedometer). Procedure: We first measured the distance between where we began to time the vehicles and where we stopped timing the vehicles We then stood at the end of the distance we measured with stop watches and alternated which of the two timers recorded each car (in case there isn’t enough time to reset) one timer measured the even cars and the other timer measured odds. We then began to time the cars when t…

Introduction: We had to find the speed of 10 cars on Cooper Rd. The speed limit is 35 mph but a lot of cars exceed that. We had to try and find out the speed of the cars based on the distance they traveled, and the time it took them to travel that distance. Procedure: Set up a tape measure to make sure it was 20 m in length Next, set up a timer to time each car from bumper to bumper, how long it took to travel the 20 m. Put two people at each marker and get rid of the tape measure. Record data. Repeat steps 2-3 for each car. Conclusion: Something we could have done to improve our data is having two people timing the cars instead of just on…

Introduction: We decided to see if cars travelling North down Cooper Road outside of Irondequoit High School were speeding. We set up a timing station at twenty meters from the start to measure the speed of passing cars. Procedure: We chose a starting point on a line on the road, so timers could better see when cars started the measurable distance. When a car passed the starting point, timers at the station began their stopwatch. When the car passed the timer, they stopped their watch. Timers recorded the time it took for the car to travel the distance. Calculation: Conclusion: The average speed was 15.7 m/s, just .1m/s over the speed limit. Our conclusion is tha…

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Introduction The Speeding Lab Project was used for the purpose of seeing if cars were speeding above the speed limit on Cooper, 35 mph. Measuring the speed of the cars passing by, we measured out 20 meters and timed the cars on how long it took them to drive that distance start to finish. Procedure 1). Went on to Cooper Road, with materials 2). Measured out 20 meters along the road 3). With one person standing at either end of the 20 meters, with stopwatches, the cars were timed 4). After gathering a description of the car, someone wrote down the time of their travel. …

Zach, Konner, Megan, Heather Heather Heupel, Megan Bishop, Zach Monette, Konner Oakes The speed limit on Cooper Road in front of the high school is 35 mph. as part of an Irondequoit Police Department safety project, your team has been asked to gather data about the speeds of cars driving down cooper road using a stop watch and a tape measure. We stretched out the tape measure so that we could get a distance of ten meters. As a car would pass, we would start the stop watch at the beginning of the ten meters, then stop it as it passed the end of the ten meters. The color of the car and the license plate were recorded as the car passed. We collected …

Harrison, Dan, Seth, TutTut The problem we faced today is that we wanted to see if cars were speeding down cooper road. So to test this we recorded how long it took a car to go 10 meters, then converted that time into miles per second and recorded our data. To do this experiment, we measured out 10 meters on the school sidewalk facing the road. We had one person with a timer stand at the start of 10 meters and someone else with a timer stand at the end of the 10 meters. We recorded 10 cars go by. One at a time we recorded how long it took for each car to go 10 meters. We recorded the time the time it took then converted the time from m…

Hannah, Delaney, Quinn, Zach M, Corey Hannah Kralles, Quinn Melidona, Delaney Best, Zach Miller, Corey Kosclelski Speeding Lab As part of an Irondequoit Police Department safety project, our task was to go on Cooper Road and measure the speeds of various cars to see who was speeding. The space of road in front of the high school is 35 mph or 15.6 m/s. We had to record distance, time and description in order to see which cars were speeding. Procedure: We got together as a group and decided what our plan was When we got outside, we picked two poles for our starting and end points and measured the distance to be 11m and 84 cm (this was consistent for all trials). As …

Mandy, Zach, Zach, Mitchell, Grace Speeding Lab Write-Up Mitchell Bertch Grace Bradshaw Mandy Napierala Zach Haight Zach Burget The problem that we were trying to solve was how fast cars were driving down cooper road. In order to figure this out, we had to take measurements and calculate the speed. With these calculations the police department will be able to prevent people from speeding in front of the school. Procedure: Measure the distance between the two telephone poles. Made two people stand at the first pole and have both time when a car passed by We had a person at the secon…