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Free Fall

The document discusses free-fall motion and how to analyze objects falling under the influence of gravity only. It describes key concepts such as displacement, velocity, and acceleration. The goal is to perform an experiment to measure the acceleration of a freely falling object and determine the value of g, the standard acceleration due to gravity.

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Free Fall

The document discusses free-fall motion and how to analyze objects falling under the influence of gravity only. It describes key concepts such as displacement, velocity, and acceleration. The goal is to perform an experiment to measure the acceleration of a freely falling object and determine the value of g, the standard acceleration due to gravity.

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Free-Fall Motion

By: Robert McGee


What happens ?
 1) When you drop a rock from a cliff?
Ans: It falls downward.
 2) When a Skydiver jumps from a plane?
Ans: He/She will fall to the ground.
 3) To a skydiver’s speed as he is falling?
Ans: It will reach a terminal velocity due to
air resistance.
Free-Fall Motion
 An object moving under the influence of
gravity only!!
Our Goal For Today
 1) Perform an experiment to analyze a
free-falling object.

 2) Determine the value of g.

 3) Enable you to solve problems dealing


with free-falling objects.
Properties of Motion

 1) Displacement

 2) Velocity

 3) Acceleration
Displacement
 Displacement: the distance and direction
travelled.

 Alex Rodriguez hits a home run. What is


his total displacement around the bases?

 Ans: 0!!!
Velocity
change  in  displaceme nt s 
 Velocity:  v
change  in  time t
A Home-Run takes about 3.5 sec to clear Shea’s
center wall (420 ft.) What is the velocity of the
ball?
Ans: 420 ft  0 ft
velocity   120 ft / s
3.5s  0 s
- For every second, the ball travels 120 ft.
Acceleration
change  in  velocity v 
 Average Acceleration:  a
change  in  time t
A car does 0-85 m/s in 6.4 seconds. What the average
acceleration for this interval of time?
 85m / s  0m / s
Ans: a  13.28m / s 2
6.4s  0s
*For every second, the velocity increases by
13.28
Vector & Scalar Quantities
 A vector quantity has size and direction

EX: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

 A scalar quantity has only size and no direction

EX: Distance,Speed
Useful Kinematic Formulas
1)v 2
f  v  2as
2
i

1
2) s  vi t  at 2

2
3)v f  vi  at
_ vi  v f
4) v 
2
The Velocity vs. Time Graph
 Pictorial representation of velocity vs. time
graph. As time increases, the
velocity increases in this
graph.

The Slope of this graph


gives us the acceleration
of this object.
Do You Understand It?

 Can you Describe the motion of this


object? It’s Acceleration?
 Ans : Zero Acceleration, Constant Velocity
Experimental Error
g  9.81m / s 2

 What if our values do not match g?

 Remember question regarding terminal velocity


Expermiental Error
 We must calculate the percent error for
each of our trials:

True Experimental
%err   100
True
Our Experiment
 Drop the picket-fence
through the Vernier
Photogate

 Collect Data with Vernier


Software

 Analyze Velocity vs.


Time Graph
Directions
 Drop the picket fence through the photogate 5
times. (5 trials)

 Write down the acceleration values for each trial.

 Write down the experimental error for each trial.

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