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Wow Casey! If you go to FIT we will both be in NYC! I wanna go to NYU for collage so we could be neighbors I am taking physics as well because I know it will benefit me when I apply to colleges. Yearbook always looks awesome- you go girl!
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Hey Nick! You are so smart, I know you wil become a doctor one day and Physics will help you do it
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Hi, my name is Jennifer and I'm a Junior in Mr. Fullerton's class. Some of my interests are music; I love to sing dance and act. I do musical theater year round and can be seen performing all around Monroe County. In addition, I play Varsity girls soccer, participate in Student Council and I am one of the student Reps. for IHS on the PTSA board. Being interested in activities outside of school has led me towards what I want to do in the future and also has provided many opportunities that I plan to take advantage of.
I am taking Physics this year because I would love to achieve my advanced regents diploma. In addition, I feel as though having another year of science under my belt before college will only prepare me more. Both my brothers took Physics and enjoyed it, so I figured I would like it as well. I hope to learn as much as I can in Physics this year because to be honest I know very minimal information regarding this science; well I could possibly know lots of things that relate to Physics, but I honestly don't know that I know. However, I do know one thing- matter and energy!
Speeding Lab
In Labs and Projects
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Physics Lab 9/12/12
Group:
Jennifer Dinolfo
Dan Southwell
Jeramy Brown
Brenden Goebert
Introduction:
This speeding lab project forces student’s to measure distance, time going from one point to another, description of cars passing by, and lastly, calculating average speed. Groups of 3-4 students work together and help the police department maintain safety on Cooper Road. Cooper Road has a speed limit of 35 mph (15.6 m/s, or 56.3 km/hr) and our goal for this project was to gather data about the speeds of cars driving down Cooper Rd.
Procedure:
[TABLE="width: 411"]
[TR]
[TD]Car#[/TD]
[TD]Distance (m)[/TD]
[TD]Time1 (s)[/TD]
[TD]Time2 (s)[/TD]
[TD]AvgTime (s)[/TD]
[TD]Speed (m/s)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.28[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.22[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9.01[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.71[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.82[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.77[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10.49[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.44[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.56[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.60[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.07[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.12[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.05[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.81[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.54[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.68[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10.84[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.19[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.38[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]12.69[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.61[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.48[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.55[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.39[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.15[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.13[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9.28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.57[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.43[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.60[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.51[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.42[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.47[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]8.37[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Average[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.92
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10.23
Conclusion:
Our results proved that no one out of our ten cars was speeding on Cooper Road. To improve our data I would use a more accurate time measurement, it was very difficult to have 2 people do it because we rarely got the same time.
Therefore based on our results there is not a speeding problem on Cooper Road. This is becasue when we calculated the average speed from our sdistance and time measurements we found that no car was going over 15.6 m/s (35 mph). Overall, this lab was fun becasue we got to use physics out side of the classroom!
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