Monday, September 8, 2014

Buggy Lab

Members: Patrick Coh, Sabrina Espiritu, Jon Abello
Group #
Prelab observations
Buggy had a constant speed
Went forward not backward, turned around
Lights up and is red
The wheels are black
Flowers, noise
Antenna
Has batteries

Measure position - place on number line

Objective: ???
Your Plan:
Gather two measuring sticks and place them next to each other. After, tape down 5 different lengths on the meter sticks each separated by 40 cm each. Place the buggy at the beginning of the first yard stick and measure how long it takes to get from the start point to each length on the stick. After repeat the same process but this time, add a 500 g weight to the car. Securely fasten the weight with tape to ensure the safety of the buggy's heavy passenger funny!. Write down the data and record the results.

data tables??


force origin to (0,0)

VM: As the time (sec) increased, the position (cm) increased proportionally
MM: Position = (45cm/sec)time - 10cm
Slope: For every second, the buggy increased forward position by 45 cm.
Y-int: when time is 0 seconds the position is -10 cm



Trial 2:
We recorded the amount of time it took for the buggy to travel to a certain position with 500g of weight added
this analysis does not match your graph...  did you put numbers on wrong axes?
VM: as time increased the position increased proportionally
MM: position = (42cm/sec) time - 2cm
Slope: for every second, the buggy's position increased 42 cm
Y-int: when the time is 0 seconds, the position is -2cm
this graph analysis doesn;t match this graph?

and why is this STILL not done!?!?!  I waited an entire week for this after Kairos!  This is not going to cut it.