Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 340 views

    Homework - Mechanics: Free Fall Analysed With Multiflash Photographs

    Uploaded by

    Sanjana
    The document is a homework assignment on mechanics that involves analyzing the free fall of a golf ball using multiflash photographs and calculating the acceleration due to gravity. It also involves analyzing the motion of a ball thrown upward at an angle using another multiflash photograph. The tasks include: drawing distance-time graphs; finding speed and acceleration; calculating horizontal and vertical velocity components; and applying equations of motion.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Homework - Mechanics: Free Fall Analysed With Multiflash Photographs

    Uploaded by

    Sanjana
    340 views3 pages
    The document is a homework assignment on mechanics that involves analyzing the free fall of a golf ball using multiflash photographs and calculating the acceleration due to gravity. It also involves analyzing the motion of a ball thrown upward at an angle using another multiflash photograph. The tasks include: drawing distance-time graphs; finding speed and acceleration; calculating horizontal and vertical velocity components; and applying equations of motion.

    Original Title

    HW_Mechanics

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document is a homework assignment on mechanics that involves analyzing the free fall of a golf ball using multiflash photographs and calculating the acceleration due to gravity. It also involves analyzing the motion of a ball thrown upward at an angle using another multiflash photograph. The tasks include: drawing distance-time graphs; finding speed and acceleration; calculating horizontal and vertical velocity components; and applying equations of motion.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    340 views3 pages

    Homework - Mechanics: Free Fall Analysed With Multiflash Photographs

    Uploaded by

    Sanjana
    The document is a homework assignment on mechanics that involves analyzing the free fall of a golf ball using multiflash photographs and calculating the acceleration due to gravity. It also involves analyzing the motion of a ball thrown upward at an angle using another multiflash photograph. The tasks include: drawing distance-time graphs; finding speed and acceleration; calculating horizontal and vertical velocity components; and applying equations of motion.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 3

    Homework - Mechanics

    Free fall analysed with multiflash photographs

    This worksheet uses data to calculate the acceleration due to gravity, g.

    1 A multiflash photograph of a golf ball falling next to


    a mounted centimetre scale was taken, with images of
    the ball being recorded twenty times each second, as
    shown in Figure 1. The positions of the ten
    successive images of the ball shown in Figure 1 are
    given in Table 1.

    Image number Scale reading / cm

    1 12

    2 21

    3 32

    4 45

    5 61

    6 80

    7 100

    8 124

    9 149

    10 178

    Table 1

    Figure 1

    a From the data in Table 1, draw a distance–time table for the free fall, setting distance s = 0
    and time t = 0 at image 1. [2]

    b Use your distance–time table to plot a distance–time graph for the falling ball. [4]

    c By drawing tangents to the curve at the points corresponding to images 3 and 8, find the speed
    of the falling golf ball at those two times. [4]

    d Use your answer to 1c to calculate the acceleration due to gravity, and account for any
    difference between your value and the expected 9.8 m s −2. [3]

    1
    2 Figure 2 shows a multiflash picture of a ball thrown upwards at an angle. The ball was thrown in
    the direction shown by the arrow in front of a board marked with a grid of lines separated by 5 cm.
    As in question 1, the images of the ball were recorded twenty times each second.

    Figure 2

    a Explain how Figure 2 shows that the horizontal component of velocity ux is constant. [1]

    b Use information from Figure 2 to calculate ux. [2]

    c Apply the equations of motion to information from Figure 2 to find the vertical component uy
    of the initial velocity of the ball (position 1). You can assume that g = 9.8 m s−2. [4]

    3.

    [2]

    2
    3

    You might also like