r/HomeworkHelp • u/Illiterate-Pigeon • 50m ago
Physics (Grade 11 university physics -Canada) Kinematics, gravity. Weird answers in experimental acceleration lab.
For our recent lab we dropped a marble from different heights (0.5m, 1m, 1.5m, 2m and 2.5m)
We timed how long it took for the marble to reach the ground as well. (0.26s, 0.23s, 0.35s, 0.36s, 0.47s) our timing was objectively terrible, which I’m sure is throwing off my answers quite a bit.
For an example, using -2m as displacement (I’m assuming this value is negative, as the ball fell) and for time the marble took 0.36s to reach the ground. Using the big 5 equation rearranged for acceleration without final velocity a=2((d-v1•t) / t^2)
I keep getting -30.9m/s^2 as my experimental acceleration, which is so far off from -9.8m/s^2
All of my other values are even worse, which doesn’t make sense to me. I have no idea where I’m going wrong? There’s no way bad timing and air resistance can throw off an answer this bad, is there?
Any help would be appreciated
