Friday, September 30, 2016

12-Sep-2016: Modeling the fall of an object falling with air resistance

Modeling the fall of an object falling with air resistance
Jae Yoo
9/12/16
partners: Sherry Ye, Chandler

Purpose
To determine the relationship between air resistance force and velocity. By gathering data of a falling coffee filters and graph the data we collect, we will find a relationship of Fresistance = Kv^n.

Procedure
As professor drops coffee filters with different mass, we collect data to see how velocity changes.


Data

mass of coffee filters


By plotting dots of each 1/15s of flame, we can find a path of coffee filters in very short amount of times.


Graphs of the plotted dots of each 1/15s of flame.






Pictures of Collected data of each coffee filters and when it makes a constant speed

Results/Analysis

Velocity and weight of each coffee filters
And the values of K and n from the linear fit of velocity vs weight graph
picture below is the linear fit graph


Conclusions
In this lab, we learned how to model a free fall object with an air resistance. We have concluded that Fresistance = 0.0006883 * V^1.366 and proved that there is an relationship between air resistance and velocity. We also measured our uncertainty due to errors of the experiment.

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