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    This lab aimed to determine the relationship between linear and angular speed to find the radius of a hula hoop. By measuring the distance traveled during rotations and calculating linear and angular velocities, the calculated radius was found to be 0.343 m, closely matching the actual radius of 0.335 m, resulting in a low percent error of 2.389%. The experiment was deemed accurate despite potential measurement errors.

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    This lab aimed to determine the relationship between linear and angular speed to find the radius of a hula hoop. By measuring the distance traveled during rotations and calculating linear and angular velocities, the calculated radius was found to be 0.343 m, closely matching the actual radius of 0.335 m, resulting in a low percent error of 2.389%. The experiment was deemed accurate despite potential measurement errors.

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    This lab aimed to determine the relationship between linear and angular speed to find the radius of a hula hoop. By measuring the distance traveled during rotations and calculating linear and angular velocities, the calculated radius was found to be 0.343 m, closely matching the actual radius of 0.335 m, resulting in a low percent error of 2.389%. The experiment was deemed accurate despite potential measurement errors.

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    U7 L1 Lab Report

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    This lab aimed to determine the relationship between linear and angular speed to find the radius of a hula hoop. By measuring the distance traveled during rotations and calculating linear and angular velocities, the calculated radius was found to be 0.343 m, closely matching the actual radius of 0.335 m, resulting in a low percent error of 2.389%. The experiment was deemed accurate despite potential measurement errors.

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    Hula Hoop Rotation

    Shaan Patel
    Group Members: Ethan Tarrant , Caleb Stewart

    Overview:
    The purpose of this lab is to determine the relationship between linear and angular speed and use it
    to find the radius of the hula hoop. After calculating the radius, we can then compare it with the
    actual radius to determine if the lab was successful and accurate.

    Apparatus:

    Procedure:
    1. Get a hula hoop, meter stick, and timer.
    2. Place the hula hoop on the ground
    3. Push it with a little force so that it moves slowly but doesn’t fall over before 1 rotation and
    start the timer
    4. After a rotation, stop the timer and mark where the hula hoop is/was when it completed the
    rotation.
    5. Use a meter stick to measure the distance
    6. Put the data in a spreadsheet
    7. Repeat steps 2-6 two more times but each time, increase the force of the push so the hula
    hoop moves faster and allow it to make more rotations each time.

    Data:

    Angular velocity Linear velocity Distance


    rotation (rad) (rad/s) (m/s) (m) Distance (ft) time (s)
    2.41666666
    Slow Roll 6.283185307 3.378056617 1.299283154 7 7.25 1.86
    4.58333333
    Medium Roll 12.56637061 5.463639398 1.992753623 3 13.75 2.3
    6.91666666
    Fast Roll 18.84955592 6.241574808 2.290286976 7 20.75 3.02

    Analysis:
    To achieve the goal of this lab, finding the radius of the hula hoop by calculating the linear and
    angular speed, we first need to find the linear and angular speeds. To do this we can use the
    equation 𝑣 = 𝑟ω. This equation was already given in the lab; it says that linear velocity is directly
    proportional to the radius and angular velocity. To find the radius, we can rearrange the equation
    𝑣
    into 𝑟 = ω
    . With this equation, we know that if we graph the linear velocity over the angular
    velocity, it will give us the radius. But since we don’t have the linear nor the angular velocity in our
    𝑑
    experiment, we need to calculate them. Linear velocity is calculated by 𝑣 = 𝑡
    where d is distance in
    meters and t is the time in seconds. We have both of these variables but the distance is in feet, so we
    need to convert it into meters by dividing it by 3. Then we can calculate the linear velocity by
    dividing the distance in meters over the time in seconds. Next, we need to calculate the angular
    θ
    velocity which has the formula: ω = 𝑡
    where theta is the displacement in radians and t is the time
    in seconds. To calculate theta, we can multiply the number of rotations done by the hula hoop in
    each trial by 2π and since we know that the slow speed trial did 1 rotation, the medium speed trial
    did 2, and the fast speed trial did 3, we can find the displacement in radians and divide it by the time
    in seconds to get the angular velocity. When we have the linear and angular velocities for each of the
    data points, we can create a graph of them where the linear velocity is on the y-axis and angular
    velocity is on the x-axis because to get the slope, it is the y-axis over the x-axis and the linear velocity
    is in the numerator. Finally we can create a line of best fit and its slope will give us the radius of the
    hula hoop.

    Conclusion:
    The calculated radius of the hula hoop came out to be 0.343 m and the actual radius of the hula
    hoop was 0.335 m. This gives us a percent error of 2.389% which is pretty low and shows that the
    experiment was accurate and successful. The causes for this percentage error could be that the hula
    hoop would not go in a perfectly straight line and there might be reaction speed problems when
    measuring the time. But, overall, the low percent error shows that the experiment was pretty
    accurate.

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