Physics 201 Lab 1 - Working with Numbers

Physics 201
Lab 1 – Working with Numbers Name Christian Fay
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any of the text in this document. Just type your answers under the appropriate question. You must submit all Logger
Pro (.cmbl) files with your report. Please delete any videos within the .cmbl file before saving it and submitting it.
This is a word document and you can type your answer directly into the lab for submission. You will need to
download and install LoggerPro to do this lab. Instructions for doing this are available in Blackboard. Please follow
the directions for doing this carefully. All students are required to have access to a computer which can access and
open all course material.
Read the articles on Measurements and Graphing and Fitting Data. Also read, print out and keep handy the
papers on Principle Formulas and Some Useful Information. Please make sure you follow the directions for each
problem carefully.
1. After completing this lab, be sure to take the online quiz on Blackboard under Lab 01. Do not take this quiz
until you have read the material above. You will have only one chance to complete it.
2. You will submit this completed in lab in Blackboard at the same location that you downloaded it from.
3. Use the Logger Pro software to make a plot of the position vs time given in the following table. You are an
astronaut on an unknown planet. You want to determine the acceleration of gravity on this planet so you go
to top of a high cliff and drop a rock over the edge. The dependent variable is the position and the
independent variable is the time. The table below is the measured position of a rock as it falls from the top
of the cliff. The rock obeys the kinematic equation y = vot + ½ gt2 where g represents the acceleration due to
gravity. Make a plot of the data in LoggerPro and making sure you label the plot properly.
Measurement Position (m) Time (s)
1 0 0.0
2 26.8 1.00
3 60.3 2.00
4 107. 3.00
5 168. 4.00
6 241. 5.00
7 328. 6.00
8 429. 7.00
9 543. 8.00
10 670. 9.00
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