Lab 4 Worksheet - Hooke’s Law

1. What is the title of your poster?

2. Who are the authors of the poster (all the team members)?

3. What is everyone’s affiliation? (Which department does everyone represent?)

4. What year is everyone?

Introduction:

5. Describe the measurement you are making and why you are performing the measurement.

Experimental Design Section

6. Describe the experimental method you designed and why you designed the experiment this
way.

7. Describe the data you collect and how you collected it.

8. Describe how you applied Hooke’s Law to your design?

9. Identify the assumptions you made. Describe how these affected your experiment, proce-
dure, or decisions.

10. When you performed your follow up measurements, what changes did you make to improve
the quality of your data?

Data Presentation Section

11. Organize your data in a logical way. Include example images of the data collected from the
IOLab software. Sample images of the data collected should be appropriately zoomed in
and/or highlighted. Your data should use appropriate units.

12. Include a force vs displacement graph and identify the part of this graph that represents the
spring constant.

13. Identify the part of the graph where the device is moving up the ramp and the part where it is
moving down.
14. How are you interpreting the data you collected?
Analysis Section

15. Make observations about the data you collected.

16. Identify the factors that limit the accuracy of your measurement and the limitations that pre-
vented you from getting a more accurate measurement.

17. How did your data change after you modified your experiment and performed the follow up
measurements?

Model Validity Section

18. Based on your experiments, do you believe Hooke’s Law to be a valid model? Why or why
not?

19. Describe how you used the data you collected to evaluate the validity of Hooke’s Law.

20. What criteria did you use to evaluate Hooke’s Law?