[Determining Maximum Height Lab Deliverable]

Determining Maximum Height Lab Deliverable: Maddy, Paul, and Remo.

The maximum vertical leap of an athlete using a stopwaych and kinematic equations has a very high error percentage. This is because it is hard for the person who is doing the timing to know when the jumper leaves and returns back to the ground to the exact second. In addition, there may be other factors that could affect the data including if the person is bending their knees before they jump and how much they may be bending them, if they take a running start, or if they they jumped with one foor starting on the ground versus two. If this could be re-designed using more accurate state- of- the-art measuring equiptment, a more modern experiment could be using something like lasers and computers with timers. We could set them up so they would know exactly when the persons feet left the floor and when they touched back down and it could time exactly how long they were in the air for. In addition, there could also be a set of directions stating the specific way each individual has to jump. (ie. without a running start, and with both feet starting on the ground.) This would for the most part give the students testing the experiment more accurate data.

[Determining g Lab Deliverable]

Determining g Lab Deliverable- Maddy, Remo, and Paul.

Breaking News! Young physics students at Irondequoit High School have recently calculated the acceleration due to gravity! To do this, they conducted an exeriment which included dropping a ball and seeing how long it took for it to go a certian diatance. What they did was measure 5.2 meters up from the ground and then took a ball and dropped it. In addition to this, they timed how long it took for the ball to reach the ground. The students did this a series of three times to get more accurate measurements. After that, they used the formula d=vit+1/2at^2 to find the accereration. After plugging in all of their date (with units of course) they concluded that the acceleration due to gravity was 9.94 which is very close to the accepted value of 9.81.

[Speeding Lab]

Paul Divincenzo, Remo Divincenzo, SpeedingLab

Madeline Giamartino, Ben Duchano

Thepurpose of this lab was to find out if cars were speeding down Cooper Rd. We measured out forty meters and had two peoplestand at one end and two at the other. Two of the people on one side had stop watches with them. Once the car would pass by them, they wouldstart the timer and then the other people at the other end signaled the timersto stop when the car passed them. (At the other end of the 40 meters.) Our average speed and velocity of our 20trials was 13.365 m/s.

[Physics Intro]

Hello my name is Maddy. I am a junior in high school and am currently taking regents physics! I love to play softball as well as tennis and my favorite subjects in school are science, art and music. I hope to one day become an occupational therapist in elementary schools. I am excided for senior year next year anc cant wait to start a new chpater of my life after I graduate!

The reason I am taking physics this year is mailny because I like science. Also because I possibly want to go into occupational therapy, i know that colleges will be looking fo lots of math and science classes. I would love to learn how things work and function in the every day world. Im very excited for physics and cant wait to start the year!