In physics, we explore fundametals of how life works through learning motion, forces, energy, momentum, and more. We get chances to learn the skills, practice with daily homework, and check our understanding through quizzes and tests. Although a lot of physics class is formulas and math on paper, we get the chance to see our math come to life with different demonstrations and labs where we see the fundamental concepts in action in real life.
In the Incline Plane Lab, we were exploring the relationship between the velocity of the cart at different angles. In this lab, we had to apply several of the different formulas we learned for kinematics in order to convert the data we collected into the correct data we wanted to explore. Overall, we found that as the incline angle increased, the acceleration increased, which is what we expected based on the relationships and formulas we learned in class.
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In the Dynamics lab, we were tasked with the goal of exploring the relationships that we were learning about related to dynamics. However, we weren't given a question to explore like our previous lab, but rather, we had to develop the experiment ourselves. Our group wanted to explore the role of friction through forces, so we designed our experiement as such. One thing that was unique about this lab report was that one requirement was that it should fit on one page so we had to write concisely, but also get creative with formatting in order to make the most of whatever space we had on the page.
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