Gicale, Patrick Emmanuel T.

PHY10L B5
Prof. Rayda B. Gammag

DOP: October 23, 2015

DOS: October 30, 2015

Experiment No. 2: Kinematics

Guide Questions:

1. From the data obtained, what is the effect of the height of the track to the carts
acceleration?
- The height of the track, where the sin relies on, which on the data weve
obtained changes along with the acceleration.
2. From the data obtained, how is time, t related to the inclination of the track? Explain
why?
- Time and the inclination of the track also the height and the pull of the earth are
factors that have an effect to the acceleration of a moving or free-falling object.
3. From the data obtained, how would you account the difference between the picket fences
acceleration and the value of g?
- The slope the graph of average velocity versus time would be the graph of the
acceleration due to gravity of the falling object.

Problems:
1. A police car is searching for a fugitive that managed to escape a while ago.
Knowing that he is now safe, the fugitive begins to take a rest until he notices a
police car approaching him at 10m/s, acceleration at 5 m/s 2 and it is 100 m away.
The fugitive grabs a motorcycle and starts it accelerating at the same rate as the
police car. How much time will it take the police car to catch the fugitive?

2. A car starts from the rest and moves along a straight line with an acceleration of a
= (3s-1/3)m/s2, where s is in meters. Determine the cars velocity and position when
t=10s.

Remarks:

The experiment is subdivided into three parts: the Determination of Average

Velocity, Acceleration due to Gravity of the cart and Acceleration due to Gravity using
Picket Fence and Smart Timer. On the first part of the experiment, the track lies on a
straight line. Meaning there will be no factor which could lead to a dramatic change of
speed of the cart. In our data as the Carts displacement increases thus the time also
which we implies that they are proportional if and only if the motion is only on straight
line where angle is equal to zero. Next would be, the inclined track where we gradually
change the height of the track. In our data, as the height of the track increases, the
acceleration and the value of sin also increases which we could imply that the height
and the factor gravitational pull where the reason for the gradual change of acceleration
every trial and we could say that the height is directly proportional to acceleration. Lastly,
the free-fall motion of picket fence. In our data, all of the trials had great accelerations.
This is due to the direction of the motion of the object which is going down that
compliments the gravitational pull which also had the same direction.
Due to some discrepancies of the experiment, weve gathered high percentage
error. In the second part of the experiment, we were not might be precise regarding the
measurement of the height and also the position of the photogate. And lastly the last part
where the direction is not constantly straight downward which could affect the results of
the trials.
Conclusion:
Kinematics is the branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of objects
without reference to the forces that cause the motion. In the experiments, we determined
the average velocity of an object moving in the same motion and condition. It is by
getting the quotient of the change of displacement over time. We also found out that time
is directly proportional to the position of the object.
Acceleration have many factors that would affect the object in motion. One would be
gravity and the position of the moving object. As we've go on the experiment,
acceleration is actually the change of velocity over change of time. In the part two and
three of the experiment, gravity is the factor which led to the gradual change of the
acceleration of the cart and the picket fence. We also found that, height is directly
proportional to acceleration. And also the value of the gravity which is 9.8 m/s 2