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  1. William Pagán Jr., Mark Paradise, Preston Monigle

    This lab has many 'errors', most of which has to do with calculations. For example, you cant accuratly make out each and every calculation when it comes to determining the height a person can jump. Just a slight movement of the ruler or the hand can cause an error to the point of where the percent error can be easily seen. The timing in which you jump can also be messed up easily. Improving the lab can be fairly easy. For determining the distance in which the person can jump, you can have an accurate ruler already printed on the wall so that you could easily determine the height.

  2. William Pagán Jr.,Mark Paradise, Preston Monigle

    Determining G

    The three students first used amater stick to determine how long the ball was in the air with a stopwatch andand did this three times so that it could make the data slightly more accurateby calculating the average time and using the average time in a kinematicequation that Maek Paradiase is such a wiz at and used the3 equation d=Vit+1/2a(tsquared)which Mark than modified the equation to be able to find the acceleration dueto gravity instead of distance which the equation came out to be a=2d/(tsquared).The acceleration due to gravity came out to be 12.5m/s squared. Than theyfigured out the percent error which was the value you calculated minus theaccepted value divided by the accepted value times a hundred which came out tobe 25% which is pretty off but good considering the way they did it was byusing a stop watch which is highly inaccurate due to the visibility of the eye.

  3. I cant wait to see or hear about your as a future weather forecaster. You might just be able to help a lot of people understand with your forecasts and your other vast knowledge.

  4. Hello my name is Preston. I am that kind of person who kind and I like to get things done so I don't need to do it later like homework or other things that are due sometime later in the week or month. I am very talented in art and I am good at math and I hope after high school to go to school for art or work. I also like baseball and football, my favorite baseball team is the Yankees and my favorite football team is Green Bay (plus my mothers maiden name is Packer so it runs in the family). For the past 3 years of high school I've been part of Rodequoit the school newspaper, I started as a grunt but worked my way up to illustrations editor for the paper. I've been lucky to make many friends throughout my years in the West Irondequoit and have been lucky to have many nice teachers along my school career.

    I am taking Physics because even though it might not be required i'm used to taking all the core classes every year plus I will get to learn a lot about things work and some of the projects sound fun. I hope to learn how to make a speaker out of any material and just would like to learn some new things. Plus some of the things that my friend talks about that I don't know that much about I will better understand. This year will be fun and I cant wait to learn new things. I'm sure that my teacher will make it fun and it will be a nice smooth ride through the school year.

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