Unit 4

I decided to reproduce our little lab today at home, but without a lot of the technical supplies! I created a slope using a shopping bag and dropped the ball from the top. This creates acceleration making the ball travel faster each second. The table is about .5 meters tall so the distance on the y axis would be -0.5m because the origin (top of table) is 0m (original velocity). Gravity is always pulling so the acceleration would be -9.8 m/s^2. If i were to find the velocity of the ball i could plug in numbers to find the approximate distance it would travel and fall at the bottom of the table! When we were learning about projectile motion, I was really confused at first but as we did more problems and got into our lab, i started to understand how it worked! Its such a simple concept to learn and once you have it down, it stays! Drawing out what the situation/problem looks like helps a lot because then you can see the axis, direction, and draw out the item falling. Plugging in the numbers into the DAT equation is really easy so just follow the right equation and you end up with the correct answer!