Tony Rea

Mr. McFadden
Digital Literacy
July 8, 2014
Bouncing Ball Lab
Purpose:
The uro!e o" thi! lab i! to ractice #ith !read!heet!. The ractice i!
#ith droing ing ong ball! "ro$ di""erent height!.
Hypothesis:
The lo#er the ball i! relea!ed the $ore it #ill bounce.
Materials:
% Meter !tic&
% 'ing ong ball
% !to#atch
Procedures:
Fir!t, #e held the $eter !tic& u (ertically becau!e #e needed to &no#
#hat height #e #ere droing the ball "ro$.)e*t #e counted ho# $any
ti$e! the ball bounced.Then #e recorded all o" our data.
Data:
+eight o" dro
,c$-
)u$ber o"
bounce!,1!t try-
)u$ber o"
bounce! 2nd try-
)u$ber o"
bounce!,.rd try-
40 cm 17 16 16.5
60 cm 15 15 15
80 cm 14 15 14.5
100 cm 12 13 12.5
o!clusio!:
/e ca$e to a conclu!ion that the higher the ball droed the le!! it
bounced and the lo#er #e droed it the $ore it bounced.