Reva, Josie, Eliza, Abbey, Maisie

Mr. Keller
Delta
12-16-2022
Popper Lab

Introduction
Lab question: What is the force required to lift an object to its maximum height? What can
change that force?

Equations being used:

𝑉𝑝 = 2𝑔(𝑦 − 𝑦0)
We used the above equation to figure out 𝑉𝑝
2
𝑉𝑝
2𝑦
=𝑎
Because we previously figured out what 𝑉𝑝 is, we could use that information to find the
acceleration.
𝐹𝑝 = 𝑚(𝑎 + 𝑔)
After finding the acceleration we were able to plug in the acceleration and figure out 𝐹𝑝.

Course domains:
I.A. Framing clear and meaningful research objectives
Our introduction and hypothesis are easy to understand and outline the purpose of our lab.
II.C. Identifying and recording manipulated, controlled and responding variables
Our variables are accurate and relative to the lab.
III.D. Creating and interpreting graphical representations of data
Our graph is comprehensible and a visual representation of our lab.

Variables (not graded)

Independent: height of popper
Dependent: diameter of surface
Constants: popping technique, popper itself, measurement

Hypothesis/Objective
If the surface that the popper is bouncing off of has a smaller diameter, then the popper will
bounce lower. We think this because if there is less surface area for the popper to bounce off of,
it won't be able to bounce as high as if all of the popper is touching the surface.
Materials (not graded)
We used one popper, the floor surface, a clementine, an orange, a phone, and a measuring
tape for the lab.

Procedure
{Complete, specific, detailed! I should be able to do exactly what you did. There should be a
least one diagram or picture of your set-up with a picture title and description}
We measured the height that the popper toy jumps in 3-5 separate trials for each different
surface. We started by testing the popper off the floor and recorded the measurements of the
popper as it reached its maximum height. We tested the popper five times off of the floor and
found the average of all the jumps. Then we decided to change the factor of the shape of the
surface the popper was tested on. We used both a clementine and an orange to change the
shape of the surface and repeated our previous procedure to find the height, acceleration, and
force pop on different surfaces.

←Mid procedure
This is an image of our set-up for testing the popper off of the floor. We recorded a video of the
popper’s jump and paused at the correct panel to see the height the popper had reached next to
the measuring tape on the wall.

Data and Analysis

Error Analysis
The room for error that we had was for one or two pops, someone else popped it, so they might
have had a different strategy or a different way of popping it, which would affect the height of the
bounce. Also, the popper loses its popping strength the more times you pop it, so if the pops
started getting less and less significant, then that would have changed our results. Another error
we could have made was when measuring the height from looking in the video. A lot of the
times, the popper didn’t go straight up. This means that since the video was only shooting from
one angle, we didn’t necessarily account for the other dimensions.

Conclusion
The research objective was to find which surface would have the least amount of pop from the
popper. Our hypothesis was that the popper that was bouncing off of the clementine would
bounce the lowest, then the orange and the tallest would be the popper that went off of the floor.
We thought this because there was less surface area for the popper to be able to bounce off of,
which meant that it would have less power, meaning it would bounce lower. The results we got
were for the floor, the pop was an average of 1.7 meters, for the orange it was 1.15 meters, and
the clementine was .615 meters. In conclusion, our hypothesis was correct, because the
clementine ended up being the surface that had the least amount of pop out of everything.