ACCELLLLLERRATIONN! UNIT 3!

ACCELERATIONNNN!!! That was the key word for today! We learned more about acceleration in class today and did two labs that focused on acceleration. The first lab was called "Modern Galileo Lab." In this lab we tested if Galileo's theory on of uniform acceleration was true. IN order to accomplish this we created a ramp using whatever we could find in the room. For our group we used 5 meter sticks and used the wooden test barriers to create a incline. Then we set up the motion detector at the top of our "ramp" so that it could measure the pattern of the acceleration. We then rolled the volleyball down the ramp and saw how the VT graph and the PT graph relates to each other. The second lab tested our lesson of fast, slow, stop, slow, fast. We threw the volleyball up and watched as the motion detector gathered information. We saw that the PT graph created a arch and that the VT graph created a linear function in the negative direction. The acceleration graph created a flat line also. We also did more practice problems using the new equations that we learned yesterday. By the end of the day my brain was completely dead :O!! But it finally soaked in and we have a test tomorrow :O!! 


This is a picture of me while I was playing volleyball with my friend Jamie! Not only does this relate because we used volleyballs today but when I throw the ball up to serve the ball goes in the pattern fast, slow, stop, slow fast, but it doesn't get to complete the cycle because i do make contact and hit it between the stop, to slow (down) part of the section.