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Alexandera Chipman

Sara Whitbeck

General Physics

6 October 2016

Shoot For Your Grade Lab Report

For my first lab of the year, we did shoot for your grade involving the materials: ramp

with slides, duct tape, 1-3 meter ruler, 1 marble and a table to calculate for the equations that we

had to find. First, the class broke into groups of three or four, because one person had to roll the

marble down the slide, one person had to catch the marble so it wont drop, one person doing the

stopwatch and or one person writing the data down on a paper. In my first group, it was Joseph,

Mitch, and I; Joseph was the person who dropped the marble, Mitch catching it, and me

recording the data and doing the stopwatch.

After the data has

been collected, we had to

write it in a table and the

time of distance that we did.

We started the stopwatch at

30 cm and ended it at the

edge of the table at 0 cm.

There, we had to convert it into an equation that

is distance on roll / time on roll. Our time was

.017 s and out distance that we got from

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converting the 30 cm/100 cm we get .3 m which when we plug .3 m/.014 s we get 1.76 m/s.

After collecting the data, the number one

rule that Ms. Whitbeck had us do was draw a

picture before going into the equations so it can

slow down the process of not messing up.

Having to start the diagram, there I had to find

out where my points were going to be and the equation

that we had to find. I was the only one to do the math

for my team, where we started to put our equations on

the paper along with the data.

Once we have had all the

points down for out equations for the

X and Y axis mother of all equations,

so with all the the data of numbers we

got in the beginning, we plug it into

the X and Y that we see on the paper.

Example, we already know the Vix,

the ax, ay, Xi, Yi, and YF. The is

mean the initial, the as mean acceleration, the fs man final, and the vs mean velocity. Since we

want out numbers to go down, we want that positive, so our Yi will be positive gravity which is

+9.8 m/s.
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After we had success with the

number, another rule that Ms. Whitbeck

had us do was do a checklist with our

equations to see what we had left over. We

check off the Xi, Vix, and the rest equation

just canceled out to be zero (0) because

zero time zero is zero. On the Y part, we

checked off the YF, Yi, Viy, and ay. Once we

did that, we had to find the time, which we

could find out of the YF since it had number

in its place and that equation gave us more

information than the other one. After we find

the time, we go back into the other equation of

XF and plug it in to find it. We substitute the

Xi with 0 because no acceleration is pulling it, then we plug the Xix in and divid that all by the

time we got for our answer. After that we get .6952 m we had to convert it back into cm. We

took .6952 and multiplied it by 100 giving us 69.52 cm as out XF.

Once we got all of our data down with the answer of finding time and XF we had to use

the meter stick ruler and put it on our slides

and used another one to line up were the

marble was going to drop. Ms. Whitbeck had

a bullseye with a 30%, 40%, and a 50% for

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our scores. Once we did a little adjustment, the marble dropped on the 40% which was a mistake

because the math was correct, it was the fact that we placed the bullseye at the wrong spot of

where we thought we were supposed to have it.

After this, we got an option to redo the lab

again, I had asked my partners if they wanted to do

it again, but they said theyd rather keep the 40%

than get lower score. I wanted to do it again

because i knew that the calculations were right, it

was the fact that the placement of the bullseye was

off. So, I had went in during lunch to redo it and

found two other people Jose and Nyoolim to be my

partners. We did the same process as we did in the beginning with the start of the 5 roll time with

the stopwatch. Jose was the one who dropped the marble/record data, Nyoolim caught the marble

and I did the same as the first time. We all started again also at 30 cm and ended it at 0 cm.

After that, we did the conversion of

distance on roll divided by time on roll and

plugged in the average time to get the Vix.

But, in order to the the distance, we had to

convert the 30 cm divided by 100 cm to get

into meters which our answer get after we did .3 m / .184 s,

we get 1.63 m/s as our Vix.

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After this stage we go into do so a picture,

put the mother of all equation down and start

labeling the diagram before the equation process.

Once we out of Xs and Ys down, we go back into

the beginning to put down the data that we have

already got. The reason we we put zero(0)

on some of the parts of Viy, Yi, Xi, is

because mostly there is no acceleration

with it so it's at a 0 m or m/s.

After doing the checklist again, we started

with the Y equation since we knew more

information to find time. And how we did that was

we substitute the numbers for the YF, Viy, Yi and

ay for the acceleration which was +9.8 m/s because

we chose going down to be positive instead of

negative. Once we found the time, we re-plugged it

into the X equation to find the XF. re did the same

steps before of putting the XF = Xi + Vixt +

1/2axt^2. Once we did the numbers we get it we

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multiplied the time by Vix and got .639 m. We had to go back into cm, so we went from m to cm

by .639 m * 100 cm which we get 63.89 cm. After finding the information once again, we did the

same measurements of where the marble was

going to it. We had put the duct tape of where

we thought it was going to be, but also lined up

the 1 meter stick ruler which was in the same

direction at the time, but more of the left side

of it. Once we did the drop, the marble spot on

hit the 50% which was rewarding after the hard

work of finding everything.

So, in conclusion after the lab, I had

noticed from the first experiment was the the

moved the bullseye to far back past the scale we got which is why we got 40% but on the second

time, we did it good which got my new partners and I our 50%