Name: Buyen Nguyen

Title: Terminal Velocity Lab

Tbeory: The teiminal velocity is piopoitionally to its mass. This lab is uesigneu
to finu the ielation of these two vaiiables. We have to ueteimine the shape of oui
giaph (baseu on the slope), whethei it is lineai oi quauiatic. We will test thiee
hypothesis:
Teiminal is lineaily ielateu to the mass.
v (m)= km
Teiminal is lineaily ielateu to the squaie of mass.
v (m)=km
Teiminal is lineaily ielateu to the squaie ioot of the mass.
v (m)=k m
Metbod: Papei cup is uioppeu fiom the same height. Theie is a machine to
analysis the uata of how much time anu the velocity of the coffee filtei. Stait with
one coffee filtei anu continues with stacks of coffee filtei to get the teiminal
velocity foi uiffeient mass.
Data:
Velocity M M M
-1.3 2 1.414213562 4
-1.5 3 1.732050808 9
-1.7 4 2 16
-2.1 5 2.236067977 25
-2.34 6 2.449489743 36
-2.5 7 2.645751311 49



nterpret tbe data:



v (m)=km
Velocity M k
-1.3 2 -0.65
-1.5 3 -0.5
-1.7 4 -0.425
-2.1 5 -0.42
-2.34 6 -0.39
-2.5 7 -0.357142857

This uelta of k (the laigest minus the smallest one) is ..






v(m)= km
Velocity M k
-1.3 4 -0.325
-1.5 9 -0.166666667
-1.7 16 -0.10625
-2.1 25 -0.084
-2.34 36 -0.065
-2.5 49 -0.051020408

The uelta in the uiffeiences in k (the laigest minus the smallest) is .

v(m)= k m
Velocity M k
-1.3 1.414213562 -0.919238816
-1.5 1.732050808 -0.866025404
-1.7 2 -0.85
-2.1 2.236067977 -0.939148551
-2.34 2.449489743 -0.955301
-2.5 2.645751311 -0.944911183

The uelta of k in this table is only ., which means the uata fits most with this
equation.
onclusion: The auvice that I woulu give to them is tiy to make suie the height
when you uiop the coffee filtei will be the same. Also, the uata woulu look bettei
if you can have gieatei height (because the closei the object to the machine, it
will confuse the uata). 0ne moie thing is that the lab iooms shoulu not iegulai
heat because the heat will somehow make the aii iesistance uiffeient fiom usual,