Galileo / Falling lab

 

The question is... do light objects and heavy objects fall the same? Or does how they fall depend on their *mass* (weight)?

By dropping not sheets of paper, but compact light and heavy objects, we hope to not have to worry about air resistance.

The lab instructions are here. Download this pdf into Notability on your iPad, and respond to the questions scattered throughout the lab instructions.

If you take the movies on one person's iPad, and put them on Google Drive, you can eventually share them with the others in your group, so that everyone can be marking up one or more of the movies you took.

Here is more detailed information about:

What to hand in

You'll have 2 movies of a heavy object and 2 movie of a light object.

For each group, one person can submit (make sure names of everyone else are on there). That one person will submit:

  • one .cmbl file with the full graphs and analysis for one of the movies.
  • one .pdf file of the instructions, modified in Notability to have your responses to the various questions.

More about those .pdf instructions, with modifications

I asked you to use Notability to read the .pdf instructions for the lab, and be able to write your responses to the questions in there in the same (pdf) file. Hand in your .pdf file of directions that will also have your results in there. Those results include:

  • Responses to the questions asked in the directions,
  • The weights (in grams) of your heavy and your light object.
  • I asked you to document your "full analysis" of one of your movie data sets.

    For that full analysis, I asked you to save the logger pro file (*.cmbl file) and then submit that as part of your report.

  • Fill the 4 boxes on the last page with the accelerations you found for the 2 movies of heavy objects and 2 movies of a light object. And respond to the last question.

    Then you can turn in on Moodle your pdf file of instructions with your responses filled in.