Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Educación

Bilingüe

Science of Motion
Lab Report

Student´s names: ID:

Karla Sofia Garza Ruvalcaba 2043459

Dayra Monserrat Hernández Medellín 2043272
Marcelo Sánchez Ríos 2043505
Camila Lizeth Gómez Rendon 2043735
Monica Estefania Cavazos Delgado 2043742

Teacher's name: Ricardo González Yzcoa

Stage: #3
Group: 202
Date: May, 2021
Introduction

In physics, work is defined as a force causing the movement or displacement of an

object. In the case of a constant force, work is the scalar product of the force acting on
an object and the displacement caused by that force.

Force and displacement are vector quantities, but work has no direction due to the
nature of a scalar product in vector mathematics, also, work can be defined as the
transfer of energy from one object to another, especially in a way that makes a second
object move in a certain direction, it is also equal to the amount of force multiplied by
the distance over which it is applied.

One of the two types of energy is kinetic energy, which is the energy a body possesses
by virtue of being in motion.

For an object to accelerate, a force must be applied upon it. Applying a force requires
work. By working, energy has been transferred to the object, and consequently, it will be
moving with a new constant speed. This energy is known as kinetic energy, and it can
be calculated by the mass and speed achieved by the object into which it was
transferred.

The work-energy theorem states that the work done by the sum of all forces acting on a
particle equals the change in the kinetic energy of the particle. This definition can be
extended to rigid bodies by defining the work of the torque and rotational kinetic energy.

Methodology (procedure)

1. Set up the linear air track and verify the level.

2. Mount and the pulley is centered relative to the hole of equipment, attach mass with
threat to the glider with timing flag.

3. Set up the photogate closer to the glider must record initial time of motion and the
second photo page must record the time interval recorded by stopwatch.

4. Turn on the air pump and stopwatch, select the appropriate time scale.

5. Place the glider with a timing flag centered on the photo page and stopwatch is
stopped.
6. Release the glider and start stopwatch when the timing flag glider passes in front of
the first photogate.

7. Measure the glider mass, mass hunger and masses, distance between photopages
should be 80 cm. The experiment is repeated two or more times in order to obtain an
average time

Table of results

Repetition Time Weight Distance Work Power

1 1 0.98s

10g= 0.01 kg 4x10-3 J 4.1237x10-3 W

2 0.97s

3 0.97s

2 1 0.85s
40 cm= 0.4m
15g=0.015 kg 6x10-3 J 7.0588x10-3 W
2 0.85s

3 0.85s

1 0.76s

3 20g=0.02 kg 8x10-3 J 1.0666x10-3 W

2 0.75s

3 0.75s
Conclusion (team)

To sum up everything that has been stated so far in this laboratory we saw the air track
and how it can be used. In practice we remembered and made use of what we saw on
how to measure and find Work and Power out of the given information.

In the exercise of the air track, we used different weights to obtain different
accelerations on an object, which leads us to conclude that the more force on an object
you get a greater work and at the same time, we know that the less force the less work
there it is, and that is what we find with the acceleration variations, when the weight was
less the acceleration is less compared against a greater weight on the same object.