Car+and+Kinematics+Lab


 * Edwin - Block 4B - Science 9 (Physics)**
 * My Variables:** Travel down 1 meters on differently inclined surfaces before passing the meter stick.
 * Three Values:** 0 degrees slope, 10 degrees slope, 20 degrees slope, and 30 degrees slope.


 * How to read the graphs:** My experiment is to see how long it takes for a car to travel 1 meter after going down an inclined surface for a meter. The only manipulative variable here is the inclination of the surface it travels before going through the required one meter distance. The dependent variable here is the time it takes to travel, and if a velocity graph is included, there are signs of change in velocity as the slop increases, corresponding to Galileo's theory. Objects rolling down a higher inclined surface will accelerate faster. To read the results, start at the 0 point on the y-axis (distance from 0cm of meter stick), and look where the car reaches the 1 meter point, labeled 1 on the y-axis. Now, subtract this amount of seconds (use the side of a paper or a ruler to match up the point with the point on the x-axis; time) by the amount of seconds the car hits the 0m point, this will be the time the car took to travel across a distance of 1 meter.


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