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Activity 3.2: I AM SPEED

Materials:

- Stopwatch
- Meter stick
- Toy car / toy cart
- Masking tape
- Ramp
- Book

Procedure:

1. Get the materials

2. Set up the ramp (your book) if available.
3. pick one of the two toy cars.
4. measure out a distance of 5 meters putting a mark for every meter measured.
5. roll the toy car down the ramp and across the floor.
6. measure the time it took the car to travel every meter for 5 meters.
7. record data in data table.
8. repeat steps 3 through 5 two more times.

Toy Car
Trial 1 Trial 2 Calculate for Speed (m/s)
Average
(v = distance/average time)
Time
distance
Distance (m) Time (s) Time (s) trial1+trial 2 speed=
¿ average time
2

1 meter

2 meters

3 meters

4 meters

5 meters

Construct a line graph of the car speed using the distance and average time form the Distance vs. Time Data Table

Distance (m)

Average Time (s)