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    Free Fall

    Pinya (Fai) 10-5


    Objectives :
    -To measure the acceleration of falling object
    -To consider that the acceleration of free fall of an object depends on its mass or not
    Hypothesis :
    A graph in the velocity graph will increase or straight line up and the acceleration in the acceleration
    graph always move in constant acceleration
    Materials :
    Power Macintosh of Windows PC Vernier Photogate
    LabQuest interface Picket Fence
    Logger Lite clamp or ring to secure Photogate
    Procedure :
    1. Fasten the Photogate rigidly to a ring stand so the arms extend horizontally. The entire length of the
    Picket Fence must be able to fall freely through the Photogate. To avoid damaging the Picket Fence,
    make sure it has a soft surface to land on.
    2. Connect the Photogate to the DIG/SONIC 1 input of the request or the DG 1 input on the ULI.
    3. Observe the reading on the screen of the LapQuest interface. Block the Photogate with your hand;
    note that the Photogateis shown as blocked. Remove your hand and the display should change to
    unblocked.
    4. Open the file in the Experiment 5 folder of Physics with Computers. Two graphs will appear on the
    screen. The top graph displays distance vs. time , and the lower graph velocity vs. time.
    5. Click COLLECT to prepare the Photogate. Hold the top of the Picket Fence and drop it through the
    Photogate, relating it from your grasp completely before it enters the Photogate. Be careful when
    releasing the Picket Fence. It must not touch the sides of the Photogate as it falls and it needs to
    remain vertical. Click STOP to end data collection.



    6. Examine your graphs. The slope of a velocity vs. time graph is a measure of acceleration. If the
    velocity graph is approximately a straight line of constant slope, the acceleration is constant. If the
    acceleration of your Picket Fence appears constant, fit a straight to your data. To do this, select the
    straight part of your data and use the linear fit function in the analyze menu of the Logger Lite.
    Record the slope in the data table.
    7. To establish the reliability of your measurement, repeat Steps 5 and 6 five more times. Do not use
    drops i which the Picket Fence hits or misses the Photogate. Record the slope values in the data
    table
    Results :





    Graph 1
    Graph 1





















    Table show the slope of each graph
    Trial 1 2 3 4 5 6
    slope (m/s) 9.759 9.757 9.797 9.767 9.689 9.72


    Analysis :
    Minimum Maximum Average
    Acceleration (m/s
    2
    ) 9.689 9.797 9.743
    1.
    2.The shape of the distance vs. time graph for the free fall show a straight line up.
    3.The shape of velocity vs. time graph show a straight line up. This is related to the shape of the
    distance vs. time graph that the velocity is constant and the distance is constant as well.



    4.


    5. g=gravity and it always equals to 9.8 . The value of g is in the range of my value.
    6. The results agree with my original hypothesis and predictions because the results show that a graph
    move in constant velocity.
    Conclusion :
    The results follow my prediction based on the hypothesis. Some of the errors led to the different results
    for example, the picket fence hit the photogate or falling the picket fence in wrong method. I can
    improve the experiment by falling carefully. The experiment about the gravity or acceleration.
















    AAcceleration due to gravity, g
    9.7 1.0 m/s
    2

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