Lab Report:Kinematics in 1 Dimension

Joseph Yin
 Instructor: Mr. Rossi

Course: GAP11 AP Physics 1

Date: Sep 15th, 2023

Abstract
Introduction (Page 2): Introduce the material, procedure of the experiment, and also
the objective of doing the experiment.

Result (Page 3): Show the data and graph as a result to the experiment, there are
variables of the distance with each containing two tests results. Then report and
describes the graph.

Discussion (Page 4): Explain the data and graph by linking it to science and address
different issues related to the experiment.

Introduction
In kinematics, velocity and acceleration are the main concepts. The change in

acceleration would clearly leads to a impact on velocity and displacement. But the

exact result is under estimation. “When the object comes in contact with the ground or

any other object, it is no longer in free fall and its acceleration of g is no longer valid.
Under these circumstances, the motion is one-dimensional and has constant

acceleration of magnitude g. We represent vertical displacement with the

symbol y”(Openstax 1). In this lab we used, a free-experimental device to detect the

falling distance and time taken to calculate the velocity . We want to find out how the

relations between displacements, time, velocities, and accelerations actually are.

Procedures:

1) We first use a plumb line to find whether the scale mark was in vertical

perpendicular with the ground.

2) We then use a device to press reset to add magnetic to the device and stick the ball

on it.

3) We set the time detector to the directed distance.

4) We press the start button and wait for the ball to fall. Then we collect the data

collected by the device.

1
We make final calculation with the equation of V = a ∆ t 2 to find out the velocity and
2
the acceleration.

Result
As for the result, we found out that starting from a distance of 0.1m from the dropping
place, the ball travelled through with a time of 0.14s, as raised to 0.2m, the ball travel
through with 0.20s. Then we raised the distance all the way to 1m and the time
travelled was 0.45s. As the distance increase from 0.1m to 1m the velocity, as
calculated with the formula of (displacement/time), increased also, whereas the
acceleration decreased from 10.8m/s² relatively to 9.79m/s².
distance(cm distance(m Average Average Average time
time(ms) Acceleration(m/s²)
) ) time(ms) time(s) square
10 0.1 140.9 140.7 140.8 0.1408 0.01982464 10.08845558
20 0.2 198.2 199.7 198.95 0.19895 0.039581103 10.1058327
30 0.3 247 243.3 245.15 0.24515 0.060098523 9.983606502
40 0.4 284.9 284.7 284.8 0.2848 0.08111104 9.863022346
50 0.5 319.12 318.8 318.96 0.31896 0.101735482 9.829412357
60 0.6 349.6 349.7 349.65 0.34965 0.122255123 9.815539631
70 0.7 377.9 377.7 377.8 0.3778 0.14273284 9.808534602
80 0.8 403.8 403.9 403.85 0.40385 0.163094823 9.810243976
90 0.9 428.9 428.4 428.65 0.42865 0.183740823 9.796407655
100 1 451.7 452 451.85 0.45185 0.204168423 9.795834123

Chart Title
1.2
1
f(x) = 4.86922248685006 x + 0.00545400094040538
0.8 R² = 0.99998443827386
distance(m)

0.6
0.4
0.2
0
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25
Average time square (s^2)

As seen the grave above when the distance increase the time also increase.

Conclusion
To sum up the result, we find that the distance traveled have a proportional relationship with the

time traveled. Specifically, the greater distance one object travel, it takes more time. Plus, we

found that the distance traveled have liner relationship with time square with a constant rate of
change in other words. In the other hand, the acceleration decrease as the displacement

decrease. This experience fits the common knowledge since the falling objects suffered air

resistances, the acceleration would decrease as it travel for more time. The experiment still have

two errors. First when we stick the ball with magnetic, the ball was sometimes shaking and that

could effect the result. Secondly, we didn’t use other objects to test the same experiment, the

result might not be effective in all scenarios. So the result from the test could give a reasonable

solution for the hypothesis in the introduction.

Work Cited

“3.5 Free Fall - University Physics Volume 1 | OpenStax.” Openstax.org,

openstax.org/books/university-physics-volume-1/pages/3-5-free-fall.