For How Long Can We Fly?

Caleb Chaffee, Sabine Mann, Daniel Anker-Scherer

Washington Latin Public Charter School
5200 2nd St NW, Washington, DC 20011

Introduction: Set up and procedure: Data and Analysis:

The equation we used was
During our lab as a group we 2
y=y0+V0t-(gt )/2.
used mathematical thinking and Figure 1: Figure 2: The equation simplifies to t =
problem solving to overcome Initial Height Jump sqrt((2y)/g).
difficulties that we faced,which Adding in the values of our average
jump in meters, we got 0.48, 0.52, and
we demonstrated through trial 0.53 for Daniel, Caleb and Sabine
and error that eventually ended respectively.
in success. We used the
equation:
2(2Yo/9.8)=t to calculate our
data.
First, we We then jumped
Hypothesis: measured how to see how much
high we can farther we could
We predicted that our hang reach with a put the tape while
times would be less than the piece of tape jumping
Conclusion: The purpose of this lab was
world record, maybe around to see how long we could hang in the
Figure 3: Measurement air during the jump. We came
half of a second
surprisingly close to our prediction of
Finally, we half a second. Some possible errors in
measured the our data were human error in the
height we had measurement of the jump height and
Materials: jumped and miscalculations, although these seem
-Tape calculated the
unlikely as our hang times were quite
-Meter stick close together and similar to what we
jump time. predicted.