ENGINEERING OF PHYSICS

MECHANICAL PHYSICS LABORATORY

EXPERIMENT NAME: Free Falling Object
EXPERIMENT NO: 4
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STUDENT NUMBER:
DEPARTMENT&EDUCATION TYPE: 1st Education | ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

CALCULATION
Velocity(m/s 0.7724 0.8644 1.2050 1.4000 1.4830 1.7650 1.9280 1.8710 2.1060 2.1240
)
Time(s) 0.0173 0.0490 0.0739 0.0932 0.1106 0.1261 0.1397 0.1529 0.1655 0.1773
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1. Draw the velocity-time graph according to the free falling data in the video.
Velocity
2.5

2.11 2.12

2 1.93
1.87
1.77
y-axis | Velocity (m/s)

1.48
1.5 1.4
1.21

1 0.86
0.72

0.5

0
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.2

x-axis | Time (s)

2. Calculate the slope of your velocity-time graph.

The slope is the average acceleration a avg itself.
Let the slope be m:
v f −v i 2.124−0.7224 −2
a avg=gexp =m= = =8.76 m. s
∆t 0.1773−0.0173

Obtaining the equation of the line that represents the slope:

Let the initial equation of the line be:
y=mx=8.76 x
It is a line passed from the origin.
What we just need to is to determine the value of translating or moving the line on y-axis.
The final equation of the line will be in this form:
y=mx+b
We obtain b by taking the Arithmetic Mean of “the distances between the points of the two lines (the
experimental graph of velocity−time, y=8.76 x) on the y-axis”.
 Let k be the sum of the velocities values:
k =0.7724+ 0.8644+1.205+1.4+ 1.483+1.765+1.928+1.871+2.106+2.124=15.4688
And l be the sum of y(s) from equation ( y=mx=8.76 x):
l=0.0173 m+0.04907 m+0.0739 m+ 0.0932m+0.1106 m+ 0.1261m+0.1397 m+0.1529 m+ 0.1655 m+0.1773 m=1.
Then:
k−l 15.4688−9.7164
b= = =0.5752
10 10
So the regression line’s equation is y=8.76 x +0.5752

Velocity Regression Line

2.5

2
y-axis | Velocity (m/s)

1.5

0.5

0
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.2

x-axis | Time (s)

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3. What is the percentage error of “g” ?(gtheoretical value=9,81m/s2). gexperimental =8.76 m . s
The percentage error:
¿ ¿ gtheoretical −gexperimental ∨ ¿ ×100=¿ 9.81−8.76∨ ¿ ×100=10.70 % ¿ ¿
gtheoretical 9.81

4. In the free falling experiment, 1st group obtained three data

a1=10,325m/s2, a2=9,757m/s2, a3=9,253 m/s2
a) What is the 1st group’s experimentally error? (g=9,81m/s2)
¿
×100=¿ 9.81−10,325∨ ¿ ×100=5.25 % ¿ ¿
The percentage error of a1: ¿ ¿ gtheoretical −a1∨ g 9.81
theoretical
¿ ×100=¿ 9.81−9,757∨ ¿ ×100=0.54 % ¿ ¿
The percentage error of a2: ¿ ¿ gtheoretical −a2∨ g 9.81
theoretical
¿ ×100=¿ 9.81−9,253∨ ¿ ×100=5.67 % ¿ ¿
The percentage error of a3: ¿ ¿ gtheoretical −a3 ∨ g 9.81
theoretical
The percentage error of their mean:
a + a +a ¿ 10,325+ 9,757+9,253
¿ ¿ gtheoretical − 1 2 3 ∨ ×100=¿ 9.81− ∨ ¿ × 100=0.322 % ¿ ¿
3 gtheoretical 3 9.81

b) In this experiment done by 2 nd group, average gravitational acceleration was obtained 1000 cm/s 2,
what is the experimental error (percentage difference) between 1st and 2nd groups?
 1m
gavg =1000 cm. s−2 × =10 m . s−2
100 cm
¿ ×100=¿ 9.81−10∨ ¿ ×100=1.936 % ¿ ¿
The percentage error of gavg : ¿ ¿ gtheoretical −gavg∨
gtheoretical 9.81
The experimental error (percentage difference) between 1 and 2 groups ¿∨1.936 %−0.322 %∨¿1.614 %
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