MEASUREMENT OF ACCELERATION

DUE TO GRAVITY, “G”

BY: HANAN SUA
INTRODUCTION

In this experiment, the object's acceleration as it drops toward the

earth's surface will be measured. Air resistance is neglected, so the
acceleration of the object is g which is the acceleration due to gravity.
The value of g varies from it's place from lower to higher elevations,
but the average value of g is generally regarded as 9.8m/s2
METHODOLOGY

LOCALE
The experiment was done at Jeddah which is located in Saudi Arabia
and was done at home.

MATERIALS
The materials that were used in this experiment are as follows:
measuring tape, scotch tape, click ballpen, pin, and a Phyphox app.
d - Distance Formulas:
u - Velocity d = ut + 1/2at2
t - time
g = 2d/t2
a - Acceleration

For gradient:
m = y2 -y1/x2-x1
Steps:
1. Measure the height or distance with the measuring tape.
2. Measure the time with the app called Phyphox in your cellphone then
get the average of time and square it.
3. Repeat until you have 5 trials.
4. Do it all again with 4 more different heights or distances.
5. Solve for g and get the average value for g.
6. Calculate the error.
 RESULTS
Number of readings distance(m) time(s) t2(s2) g(m/s-2)
t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 tAVE
1 2 0.646 0.647 0.647 0.647 0.646 0.6466 0.418 9.57
2 2.15 0.654 0.655 0.654 0.654 0.654 0.6542 0.428 10.05
3 2.25 0.669 0.668 0.668 0.668 0.669 0.6684 0.447 10.01
4 2.35 0.692 0.694 0.694 0.694 0.692 0.6932 0.481 9.77
5 2.45 0.708 0.708 0.706 0.709 0.708 0.7078 0.501 9.78
Average Average
0.455 9.836

Average value of “g” = 9.84 m/s-2

Percentage error = (9.84-9.80) x 100
9.80
= 0.41%
CONCLUSION

This experimeproves that the gravitational field strength remains

constant in all free-fall situations. The object's acceleration is
unaffected by the height from which it was dropped or the time it
takes to fall and we can determine the errors in this experiment by
comparing the obtained acceleration values with the constant value.
All in all, it can be concluded that the acceleration due to gravity is
9.8m/s2
FINISH