PASCO
 
MAIN PROCEDURE
Students will set-up lab equipment in order to predict the motion of a car from different graphs.


Picture 1
    1. Using only the materials in Picture 1 above, arrange the equipment so that the motion of the car will be similar to the graph.

    2. Press the Start button in DataStudio and simultaneously set the car in motion.

    3. Repeat the previous steps until your graph is similar (not necessarily, identical) to the original graph.

    4. Repeat the process for the remaining graphs.
    1. Sketch the graphs for the same motion but with position on the vertical axis.

    2. Sketch the graphs for the same motion but with acceleration on the vertical axis.

    3. Observe your original sketch for Graph 2, what physical property does the slope of this graph represent? What are the units?

    4. Observe your original sketch for Graph 1, what physical property does the area of this graph represent? What are the units? Calculate this value and compare it to your results.

    5. Compare your original sketch of the velocity from Graph 4 and your sketch of the acceleration from Graph 4. At one point, one of these values is zero while the other is non-zero. Explain this result.