[Kinematics and Gravity Lab]

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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 forever. By being able to calculate the acceleration due to gravity with only a simple stopwatch, physicists around the world can now do the same. This new strategy makes calculating this acceleration with simple algebra.

 

[You're Speeding Lab]

Speeding Lab Sept. 12th 2014

 

Today we tried to catch some speeders on Cooper road. We counted 10 cars and tried to figure out their speed by recording how much time it took them to get from one point to another.

 

1.) Gathered materials

2.) Organized logistics of the experiment

3.) Went outside to measure 10 meters in order to establish marking points

4.) Set one person at each end of the 10 meters with stopwatches in hand

5.) Each time a car passes the first person the times start and as the car passes the second person the timers stop

6.) Repeat step 5 for 10 cars

 

Our result is that we didn’t catch any speeders and we are happy to say that Cooper road is a very safety road and the people of Irondequoit are driving with an appropriate save speed.

If we were to improve our experiment, we’d need to be more verbal, better communication, be more specific at our car descriptions.

  

 

 

Car

Description

Speed

Speed limit

1

grey Jeep

7.6

15.6

2

black

8.1

15.6

3

grey

10.8

15.6

4

tan

10.2

15.6

5

white

8.5

15.6

6

blue

8.9

15.6

7

blue

9.5

15.6

8

light brown

9.7

15.6

9

white

9.1

15.6

10

School Bus

8.2

15.6

 

 

[Introduction]

Hello everyone!

 

My Name is Moritz, I am the Austrian Exchange Student. I love sports, I play Rugby for RC Danube in the U18 Pirates Team, but also do lots of other sports like Windsurfing, Mountain-biking (Downhill),  Skiing, Snowboarding, Kitesurfing, Sailing and lots of other Sports at any time of the year.  In Austria I go to an "Art School" where the main focus is on photographie and art. 

 

 

I take Physics because it is part of my Exchange Programm and I have to, but I anyway think that it is very interesting as Physics is basacally everywhere! My goal for this year is the get a better view of Physics and I would like to do a lot in the lab and learn lot's of new things