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Hot Wheels Acceleration Lab

1. Orion Ma conducted an experiment using a Hot Wheels car on a ramp to measure acceleration. 2. The results showed that the car accelerated from 0.102 m/s to 0.903 m/s over 0.366 seconds, resulting in an acceleration of 2.189 m/s/s. 3. Orion concluded that the acceleration measured meant the car's speed increased by 2.189 m/s every second, and that the curved line on the distance vs. time graph and straight line on the velocity vs. time graph matched the constant acceleration.

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Hot Wheels Acceleration Lab

1. Orion Ma conducted an experiment using a Hot Wheels car on a ramp to measure acceleration. 2. The results showed that the car accelerated from 0.102 m/s to 0.903 m/s over 0.366 seconds, resulting in an acceleration of 2.189 m/s/s. 3. Orion concluded that the acceleration measured meant the car's speed increased by 2.189 m/s every second, and that the curved line on the distance vs. time graph and straight line on the velocity vs. time graph matched the constant acceleration.

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Hot Wheel Acceleration Lab Name: Orion Ma

Per:

Data
Distance vs Time graph:

Velocity vs Time graph:

Results

Dont forget units!


1. What speed did your car start at? 0.102 m/s
At what
time? 3.502 s
2. What speed did your car end at? 0.903 m/s
At what
time? 3.768 s
3. What was the change in your cars speed? 0.801 m/s
4. How long did it take for your car to go from its starting
speed to its ending speed? 0.366 seconds

5. What was your cars acceleration (change in speed divided


by time)? 2.189 m/s/s
6. Compare the acceleration to the slope of your Velocity vs
Time graph are your numbers close? Yes. They are similar

Conclusion

1. As the car went further down the ramp what did you notice
happen to the points that you added to the video to mark
the car? The points became further distanced from one
another.
2. Explain what the acceleration that you found in the results
means. The acceleration that I found in the results (2.189
m/s/s) shows that during every second, the car moves
2.189 m/s faster.
3. Explain the curved line shown on the distance vs. time
graph. In a distance vs. time graph, the line curves
upwards because of the constant acceleration. The time
stays the same but as every second passes, the distance
increases per every unit of time.
4. Compare and contrast the lines seen on the distance vs.
time graph and the velocity vs. time graph. In the distance
vs. time graph, we saw the line curving upward because
the distance was constantly becoming more every second.
In the velocity vs. time graph, we saw a straight line
because it showed constant acceleration.
5. Design another experiments that you will film and you will
use the Logger Pro software on. In another experiment, I
would drop a ball off a roof and measure the acceleration
to see what happened. I would do the same as I have
already done, putting a tape measure against a wall, and
then dropping the ball while recording it.

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