Day 4: Tumble Buggy Lab

Part 1:  Tumble Buggy Lab:  position vs. time graphs

Complete the tumble buggy lab sheet with your team.   

You may need a stopwatch.

Record your data in the correct spreadsheet:   Hartman3A     Hartman 4A  

Discuss as a class, including a motion detector demo of moving forwards and backwards, starting at different positions.  

Part 2:  Calculate velocity from x-t graph

Use graphs A-F on this document, printed out.

Part 3: Practice / HW

When you finish, click "take the quiz" to summarize what you learned in the lab.

Part 4:  Project #1 and #2,  Describe position-time graph.

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