Ok, I have this really simple lab but its just not working out and I dont know why. It seems complicated but its not. If you could read it out and help me it would be GREATLY appreciated. I dont get where Im going wrong. (See details if I run out of space.) The goal is to find the acceleration due to gravity. (9.8m/s^2)
We dropped a plum bob and as it dropped it marked in a piece of wax paper ever 1/30 seconds. We circled EVERY OTHER DOT. We then measured the distance from each circled dot to the next starting at dot one. (0 to dot two, dot two to dot four, dot four to dot six, etc. Aka, every other dot.) The time between each dot is 1/60 of a second. (its really 1/30, but we are measuring every other dot so its 1/60) My lab sheet tells me to make a displacement vs. time graph but Im not exactly sure why. Im trying to find acceleration which would be the slope of a Velocity/Time graph. So anyway, here are the displacements I got from measuring the dots mentioned before:
2007-01-29
16:35:05
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James
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