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Projectile Motion Is Any Object That Moves in 2 Directions at The Same Time. Both Vertical and Horizontal

This experiment involves determining where a ball will land after rolling off a table. The student will design a system to ensure the ball rolls at a consistent speed each trial. Key steps include: 1) Setting up equipment including a ball, table, measuring device, stopwatch. 2) Ensuring the ball rolls at a consistent speed each time by controlling how it is launched. 3) Calculating where the ball should land based on measurements of initial velocity, time, and acceleration due to gravity. Placing an object at the predicted landing spot to catch the ball. 4) Recording measurements when performing the experiment and calculating the actual landing spot to compare to the predicted value.

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Projectile Motion Is Any Object That Moves in 2 Directions at The Same Time. Both Vertical and Horizontal

This experiment involves determining where a ball will land after rolling off a table. The student will design a system to ensure the ball rolls at a consistent speed each trial. Key steps include: 1) Setting up equipment including a ball, table, measuring device, stopwatch. 2) Ensuring the ball rolls at a consistent speed each time by controlling how it is launched. 3) Calculating where the ball should land based on measurements of initial velocity, time, and acceleration due to gravity. Placing an object at the predicted landing spot to catch the ball. 4) Recording measurements when performing the experiment and calculating the actual landing spot to compare to the predicted value.

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Hit the Mark Name: Nahiomy De La Rosa

In this experiment you will determine where a ball will land after it rolls off of the table.

In order to make this lab possible you need to design a system where the ball consistently
travels across the table at the same velocity. Later you will need to explain how this was
accomplished it is important to understand this upfront so you can plan.

1. This experiment involves projectile motion. What is projectile motion?

Projectile motion is any object that moves in 2 directions at the same time. Both
vertical and horizontal.

2. What is free fall?

Free Fall is where the only push/pull of an object is gravity.

_________________________________________(Checkpoint)

The basic equipment for this experiment are

Ball Table Length Measuring Device Stop Watch Book/Block

3. Once you have all this equipment your job will be to make the ball to roll across the table at
a consistent rate. Which means every time you do a trial run you are confident that the ball
rolls across the table at the same rate as other runs. Because this is a projectile motion
problem you will need to keep track of horizontal and vertical motion separately. What
measurements can be obtained prior to allowing the ball to roll? Fill in those values below.

Measurement Horizontal Vertical

Initial Velocity 0 m/s


Final Velocity -4.02 m/s

Acceleration 0 -9.8 m/s^2


Time 4.1s 4.1 s

Displacement -.81 m

4. What calculations can be made prior to letting the ball roll? Show the calculations here with
proper unit analysis.

Did the equations in my notebook.

________________________________________________ (Checkpoint)

5. We are still not going to roll the ball yet. Your job is to calculate where the ball is supposed
to land without actually watching it happen. You need to mathematically predict how far,
from the edge of the table, the ball will travel before hitting the ground. To accomplish this
place a book or some type of object on the edge of the table so that the ball will hit it
instead of leaving the table.

6. When you roll the ball across the table, what measurements will you collect?

The measurements that I will collect are initial velocity, time and displacement of the
ball.
7. What calculations will you carry out with the data you collected? Understand I am not
asking you to roll the ball and collect the data. Just explain what you will collect and
calculate when you run this experiment.

I will calculate how far the ball will land when it fell from the table, by finding the
velocity at the end of the table, how far it will land and find time. By using
acceleration and displacement equations

___________________________________________________ (Checkpoint)

8. You are now ready to conduct this experiment on your own. Determine a way to ensure the
ball has a consistent speed through out each run. Explain what you did below.

I made sure to always start at the same spot and angle and also use the same amount
of strength and speed when throwing the ball in the same direction.

9. Set up the equipment so that you can collect the data for #6 & #7. Make sure the
book/block is in place to stop the ball. SHOW ALL CALCULATIONS that will determine where
the ball will land. Use the table to help organize your data.

Measurement Horizontal Vertical

Initial Velocity 0 m/s


Final Velocity -4.02 m/s

Acceleration 0 m/s -9.8 m/s^2


Time 4.1s 4.1s

Displacement -.81 m
10. Once you have determined where the ball should land remove the book/block and
determine where the ball actually lands. Record the actual value. I would expect the actual
and calculated answers to be within 10cm. If not I would look over your work for errors.

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