Our goal today was to figure out how height and weight affected the velocity of an object falling. Liam and I (since Dean was absent) figured that the higher and more weighty the object was, the more velocity and force it would have.
We had two objects to use, a ping pong ball and a golf ball. We knew the golf ball had more mass, so we figured that that would have more of a velocity. We started by Liam holding the meter stick and placing the ball at the top of it. Because if I were to watch the ball, I would click the timer too soon, I decided to close my eyes so I would have to hear the thud of the ball then click stop. I'm going to admit it here and now that I am not the most accurate person out there with lightning fast, instantaneous reflexes. Sue me. Not only that, but neither Liam nor I are 9 feet tall or can reach such a hight, our last test was 195.58 centimeters instead of the listed three meters. So needless to say, some of our results were sketchy at best.
As you can see, there are some instances were the numbers make sense. For other instances, not so much. The ping pong and golf ball averages seemed fairly good, not too many anomalies. Can you believe that? When we calculated the force of the ping pong we came out with the figure of 24.5 N, and the golf ball was 447.468 N. I am curious to see how much force exactly a Newton is. The first two tests, the ping pong had more velocity than the golf ball when the heavier golf ball should have had a greater velocity. But the last test was accurate. The earlier tests were probably victims to poor button-pushing powers. But we concluded that the heavier the object and the longer it is falling (the greater the distance, aka) the more velocity is achieved.
