MeliaDomingo

September22,2015
Hoffman/2015

AreYouFasterThanaSpeedingBullet?

OverallQuestion:Areyoufasterthanaspeedingbullet?

Hypothesis:
IbelieveIamnotfasterthanaspeedingbulletbecauseIamnotaveryfast
runner.

Experiment1:
Questions:Howfastisanerfbullet?
Hypothesis:
Ibelievethatthebulletwillmove25feetpersecondbecauseNerfbullets
arentasfastasarealbullet.
Methods:(Whatarethestepstocompleteyourexperiment?)
1) Getanerfgun
2) Shootthegunstraightoutata90degreeanglefromyourbody
3) Timethebulletfromthetimeyoupullthetriggertowhenithitstheground
4) Measurethedistancefromwhereyoushottowherethebulletlanded
Data:d/t=v
Gun#1BlueMega
Trial

Distance(d)

Time(t)

Velocity(v)

#1

46ft

1second

46ftpersecond

#2

46ft

1second

46ftpersecond

#3

51ft

.82seconds

62.195ftpersecond

AverageVelocity:51.398ftpersecond

Gun#2Revolver
Trial

Distance(d)

Time(t)

Velocity(v)

#1

36ft

1.6seconds

22.5ftpersecond

#2

41ft

1.6seconds

25.625ftpersecond

#3

45ft

1.6seconds

28.125ftpersecond

AverageVelocity:25.416
Results:(Calculations)
Conclusions:
FromthisexperimentIfoundmyhypothesiswasincorrectbecausethe
datafoundthattheshortestdistanceabulletweshotwentwas36feet.


Experiment2:
Questions:Howfastareyou?
Hypothesis:
IbelieveanaveragehumancantrunasfastasabulletbecauseIthink
theresmoreforcetoabulletthanthereistoarunninghuman.
Methods:(Whatarethestepstocompleteyourexperiment?)
1) Measureaspecificdistanceyouwouldliketorun.
2) Setsomeoneupattheendofthedistancetotimethepersonrunning
3) Havesomeonerunthestartofthedistancetotheendofthedistance
4) Formoredata,havetwopeoplerunthreetimes.Haveoneofthepeopleruntwotimes
uphillandonetimedownhill,thenhavetheotherpersonrunning,runtheoppositetwo
timesdownhillandonetimeuphill.
Data:
PersonRunning:Joseph
Trial

Distance

Time

Velocity

#1

45ft

2.6seconds

17.307ftpersecond

#2

45ft

2.5seconds

18ftpersecond

#3

45ft

2.7seconds

16.666ftpersecond

Averagetime:2.6seconds

PersonRunning:Melia
Trial

Distance

Time

Velocity

#1

45ft

3.5seconds

12.857ftpersecond

#2

45ft

3.4seconds

13.235ftpersecond

#3

45ft

3.2seconds

14.062ftpersecond

Averagetime:3.366seconds

Results:(Calculations)
Conclusions:
FromthisexperimentIfoundmyhypothesiswascorrectbecausethe
datafoundthatthebulletwentatleast1secondfasterthanthefasterperson,whichmeantthat
thebulletwasfasterthantheperson.

OverallConclusions:
Givetheanswertoyouroverallhypothesisandexplorationquestion:
OuroverallquestionwasAreyoufasterthanaspeedingbullet?andouroverallhypothesis
wasthatanaveragepersonwouldnotbeabletorunfasterthanaspeedingbullet.Fromthe
datawecollected,wefoundoutthatourhypothesiswascorrect.Wefoundthisbytakingthe

velocityofabulletandtakingthetimeitwouldtakeforpersontorunaboutthesamedistance.
Withthisdata,wefoundthatthefasterpersonwetestedwasatleastasecondslowerthana
speedingbullet.
Summarizeyourresultsfromexperiment1and2
Duringthefirstexperiment,wefoundoutthattheaveragehumanwasnotfasterthana
speedingbullet.Wefoundthisbyfirstcalculatingthevelocityfortwogunswhichwere25.416
and51.398ftpersecond.Afterthisfirstexperiment,wefoundouthowfastwewerebyhaving
twoofusrun45ft,fromtheedgeofthegrasstotheendof45feet.Thefirstpersonsaverage
timewas2.5secondstorun45feetandthesecondpersonsaveragewas3.366feetper
second.Withthisdata,wefiguredoutthattheaveragepersonwasslowerthanaspeeding
bullet.
Explainhowyouusedphysicstoansweryourexplorationquestion
Weusedphysicsduringthislabbycalculatingthespeedandvelocityofbothusandthebullet.
First,wetooktwogunsandtimedthemfromwhenthetriggerwaspulledtowhenithitthe
groundandthenwemeasuredthedistancetocompletethevelocity(distance/time=velocity)
equation.Afterthis,wetooktwodifferenttrialstofindouthowfastpeoplewere.Wegottheir
distanceandtimesandfiguredouttheirspeed(distance/time=speed).
Explainhowthetypeofgunaffectedthevelocityofthebullet
Thetypeofgunaffectedthebulletbecausethegundidntalwaysgofastandfarifitwasgood
looking,forexample,thesecondgunwegot,therevolver,lookedcoolbutdidntnecessarily
shootasfaraswewantedittogo,themaximumdistanceitwentwas45feet.
ExplainhowfastSupermanwouldneedtoflyifhecouldflyfasterthanaspeedingbullet
Thefastestriflebulletisabout1500meterspersecond,soifSupermanweretoflyfasterthana
speedingriflebullet,thenhedhavetogoatleast1501meterspersecond,ifnotfaster.

Challenge:
Explainhowtheanglethegunisshotcouldaffectyouranswertoyourexploration
question
HowmuchfasterwouldyouneedtoruntobeasfastasSuperman?