Target Practice Lab

Matthew Stainbrook, Eli Kirk, Tate

Rutherford, and Sam Fields

Objectives:
1. Determine the information that must be known in order to predict the landing
point of a projectile.
2. Experimentally determine all necessary information in order to predict the
landing point of a projectile.
3. Use kinematic equations to predict where a horizontally fired projectile and a
projectile fired at a given angle will land.
4. Accurately measure and place a target at the predicted location of the projectiles
landing point.
Background Information:
In this lab, we had to overcome many obstacles in order to correctly carry out this
experiment. When we did our preliminary test trial the ball bearing was not visible
on the slow motion camera. So as a solution we put black paper as a background
to make the ball bearing more visible. While calculating the velocity of the ball
bearing in both the launcher and the ramp we had to use different methods.

Because the photo gate could not read the velocity of the ball bearing for the
launcher we had to calculate the velocity by distance and time.
Equipment and Setup:
Procedure:
Data:

Calculations:

Error/Analysis:

Conclusions: