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Physics and Astronomy Labs/Uniform acceleration tapping basketball with spitwads

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First Lab
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I plugged it in and was able to make some measurements with the devices. The motion detector made clicking noises as it measured the position of my hand. As well as position it also measured velocity. We were able to make a parabola on the graph by moving our hand from further away from the motion detector to closer and moving it back. The starting position was roughly .75 meters, we moved into .50 meters and the bottom of the parabola was 0 meters and moved back out at a similar rate. The velocity graph looked like a sine wave.

Spit Wad Lab
In this lab, they moved the basketball up and down the hall while throwing spit wads at it. One person tapped the basketball with a meter stick so the basketball moved at a constant rate, one person manned the timer so when each time interval was reached the timer let 3 people know so they could throw spit wads to mark the basketball's location. They used the data from distance over time to solve for the velocity.