Liam Gillis, Bjorn Janssen, Emma Wilczynski

Murali

Engineering

11 September 2019

The purpose of our new measurement device, the waboba, is to measure time. We intend

on dropping it from one foot and using the time it takes to settle being one interval of time,

making it’s length most comparable to the second. It can be involved in our physics class

anytime we must measure time, instead of using seconds, we could use wabobas.

The precision of our measurement of time, when measuring seconds, is 0.12s. The

precision was calculated by taking the largest amount of seconds recorded, 3.12, and subtracting

the least amount, 3.00s.

Because our measurement is not standardly used, we have averaged our results, (3.00s,

3.02s, 3.02s, 3.06s, 3.09s, 3.12s), to create an accepted value of 3.05. When the ball was dropped

one more time, to serve as the experimental value, the result was 3.09s. To calculate the

accuracy, we find the difference of the accepted value and the experimental value, and divide it

by the accepted value to get an accuracy rate of 98.69%, or an error percentage of 1.13.

A base unit we can measure with our new unit of measurement, the waboba, would be the

second, we could also measure the derived unit of the kilosecond by recording several units in a

row.
Data:

Test Number Result (in seconds)

1 3.02

2 3.00

3 3.09

4 3.12

5 3.06

6 3.02