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Free Fall Experiment

This experiment investigates uniformly accelerated motion through free fall, focusing on proving the acceleration due to gravity and its relationship with height and time of fall. Students will use a metal ball, string, and stopwatch to conduct the experiment and analyze their results through computations and graphing. The objective is to experimentally determine the value of gravity and understand the principles of motion under gravitational influence.

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Free Fall Experiment

This experiment investigates uniformly accelerated motion through free fall, focusing on proving the acceleration due to gravity and its relationship with height and time of fall. Students will use a metal ball, string, and stopwatch to conduct the experiment and analyze their results through computations and graphing. The objective is to experimentally determine the value of gravity and understand the principles of motion under gravitational influence.

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EXPERIMENT NO.

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UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION: FREE FALL

INTRODUCTION
Acceleration is defined as the time rate of change in velocity. A changing velocity
means changing speed and/or changing direction. Uniformly accelerated motion means a
constant change in velocity per constant time interval, or this simply means that the
acceleration of the body is constant all throughout its travel. One of the examples of a
uniformly accelerated motion is free fall.
In the absence of air resistance, it is found that all bodies near the surface of the
earth fall vertically with the same acceleration. The acceleration of a freely-falling body
is called acceleration due to gravity, , with a value of ⁄ . This acceleration
is always directed downward, toward the center of the earth.
In this experiment, students will prove the value of acceleration due to gravity.
Also, students will determine the relationship of height and the time of fall of an object
under the influence of gravity.

OBJECTIVES
At the end of this experiment, students should be able to:
 experimentally prove the value of acceleration due to gravity, g; and
 investigate the relationship between height and time of fall of an object under free
fall.

MATERIALS
Metal ball Scissors String
Meterstick Stopwatch

PROCEDURE
1. Cut a 1.5-meter ( ) string. Hold the tip of the string and drop the rest to
the ground, with the lower tip touching the floor.
2. From the same position, drop the metal ball and determine the time of fall using a
stopwatch.
3. Compute the value of using the equation , this will be the experimental
value of the acceleration due to gravity ( ). Compare this value with the
accepted value ( ) by computing the percent error as follows:
| |

4. Repeat steps 1-3 using different lengths of string ( , ).


Compute the value of time squared ( ) for each set-up. Record your data on
Table 1.
5. Make a graph of vs . Interpret the graph.
6. Compute the slope of the graph as follows:

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Name: Score:
Course and Year: Date Performed:

RESULTS

Table 1
Acceleration due to gravity,
Height, Time,
( ) ( ) Experimental Accepted
( ) % Error
( ⁄ ) ( ⁄ )
⁄
⁄
⁄

COMPUTATIONS

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Graph

Interpretation

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QUESTIONS
1. Can an object's speed increase if its acceleration decreases? Explain.

2. Can an object have constant velocity and still have a varying speed? Explain.

3. Can time be used to determine the height of an establishment or object? Explain.

CONCLUSION

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