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    1) The document describes an activity where a student investigates a hit and run case using paper strips with dots representing oil spots left by a suspect's car. The student analyzes the motion by measuring distances between dots and making a tape chart. 2) By comparing lengths of successive tapes, the student can determine the car's change in speed over time intervals and say whether it accelerated or moved at a constant speed. 3) The student also measures distance traveled vs. time and plots a graph. The shape of the graph shows the car's speed and acceleration profile. 4) If the actual oil drop pattern matches what the activity showed, and the tape chart/graph indicate acceleration rather than constant speed

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    1) The document describes an activity where a student investigates a hit and run case using paper strips with dots representing oil spots left by a suspect's car. The student analyzes the motion by measuring distances between dots and making a tape chart. 2) By comparing lengths of successive tapes, the student can determine the car's change in speed over time intervals and say whether it accelerated or moved at a constant speed. 3) The student also measures distance traveled vs. time and plots a graph. The shape of the graph shows the car's speed and acceleration profile. 4) If the actual oil drop pattern matches what the activity showed, and the tape chart/graph indicate acceleration rather than constant speed

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    1) The document describes an activity where a student investigates a hit and run case using paper strips with dots representing oil spots left by a suspect's car. The student analyzes the motion by measuring distances between dots and making a tape chart. 2) By comparing lengths of successive tapes, the student can determine the car's change in speed over time intervals and say whether it accelerated or moved at a constant speed. 3) The student also measures distance traveled vs. time and plots a graph. The shape of the graph shows the car's speed and acceleration profile. 4) If the actual oil drop pattern matches what the activity showed, and the tape chart/graph indicate acceleration rather than constant speed

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    Activity 4

    Doing Detective Work


    Supposed you were having your on-the-job training in a private investigating company. You
    were asked to join a team assigned to investigate a ‘hit and run’ case. The alleged suspect was captured
    by the CCTV camera driving down a road leading to the place of incident. The suspect denied the
    allegation, saying that he was then driving very slowly with a constant speed. Because of the short time
    difference when he was caught by the camera and when the accident happened, he insisted that it was
    impossible that he would already be at the place when the crime happened. But when you were viewing
    the scene again on the camera, you noticed that his car was leaving oil spots on the road. When you
    checked these spots on site, you found out that they are still evident. So you began to wonder if the
    spots can be used to investigate the motion of the car of the suspect and check whether he was telling
    the truth or not.

    Here is an activity that you can do to help you with your investigation. You will analyze the
    motion using strips of paper with dots. For this activity, assume that the dots represent the ‘oil drops’
    left by the car on the road.

    Materials needed: ruler, paper trips with dots, cutter or pair of scissors

    Procedure:

    A. Using tape chart


    1. Obtain from your teacher paper strips with dots.
    2. Label each dot. Start from 0, then 1, 2, 3 and so on. In this example, each dot occurred every
    1 second.

    2 3
    Figure 11. A tape chart representing the motion of the car.
    3. Examine the distances between successive dots.

    Q24. How will you compare the distances between successive dots?

    _______________________________________________________________________

    4. Cut the strip at each drop, starting from the first to the last drop, and paste them side by
    side on the graph paper to form a tape chart as
    shown in Figure 2.

    Q25. How do the lengths of the tapes compare?

    _______________________________________________________________________
    Q26. If each tape represents the distance travelled by the object for 1 second, then what
    quantity does each piece of tape provide?
    _______________________________________________________________________
    Q27. What does the chart tell you about the speed of the car?
    _______________________________________________________________________

    The difference in length between two successive tapes provides the object’s acceleration or
    it change in speed or velocity for a time interval of 1 second.
    Q28. How will you compare the changes in the lengths of two successive tapes?
    ______________________________________________________________________
    Q29. What then can you say about the acceleration of the moving car?

    _____________________________________________________________________
    B. Using motion graphs

    5. Measure the Distance traveled by the car after 1 second, 2 seconds, and so on by measuring
    the distance between drops 0 and 1, and 2, and so on. Enter your measurements in a table
    similar to Table 3.

    Table 3. Position of the car vs. time


    Time of travel (s) Distance traveled (m)
    6. Plot the values in Table 3 as points on
    the graph in Figure 13.

    Q30. How does your graph look like?


    How is the different from your graph in
    Figure 13?

    _______________________________

    _______________________________

    Q32. How will you interpret this graph in terms


    of the speed and acceleration of the moving car?

    __________________________________________________________________________

    Q33. If you found out in your investigation that the arrangement of oil drops left by the car is
    similar to what you used in this activity, was the suspect telling the truth when he said that
    he was driving with constant speed?

    __________________________________________________________________________

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